Top 10 Leadership and Management links of the week, curated by Corix Partners Founder and CEO JC Gaillard, focusing on cyber security of course, but also a large cross section of subjects including digital transformation, emerging tech, AI governance and the future of work.

This Week >> The biggest challenge in cybersecurity and AI isn’t technology — it’s the management model struggling to keep pace.

- Cybersecurity needs stronger leadership, not just more controls
- Cyber insurance cannot replace genuine business protection
- Post-quantum readiness demands board-level commitment today
- Phishing defenses must address root causes, not just symptoms
- AI transformation requires organizational redesign, not simply technology adoption
- Process excellence is becoming a competitive differentiator
- CEOs must take ownership of AI transformation and its outcomes

The common thread? Technology is advancing faster than the organizations deploying it. The real challenge is no longer what technology can do, but whether leadership, governance and execution can turn its potential into sustainable business value and resilience.

 

Cybersecurity is a leadership problem: Why the management model needs to catch up

Cybersecurity's persistent shortcomings are rooted less in technological limitations than in outdated management structures, fragmented accountability and weak execution, making leadership and governance reform essential to genuine business protection.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4234532/cybersecurity-is-a-leadership-problem-why-the-management-model-needs-to-catch-up.html

 

Cyber Insurance Is Not A Cybersecurity Strategy

Cyber insurance can help transfer some of the financial consequences of a cyber incident, but it cannot replace effective prevention, operational resilience or the organization's responsibility for protecting its business.

https://abovethelaw.com/2026/10/cyber-insurance-is-not-a-cybersecurity-strategy/

 

Making the Case to the Board for Post-Quantum Readiness

Post-quantum readiness must be presented to boards as a long-term business resilience and investment challenge, requiring early cryptographic discovery, strategic planning and executive ownership rather than waiting for a definitive quantum deadline.

https://www.cio.inc/making-case-to-board-for-post-quantum-readiness-a-33036

 

We are fighting phishing at the wrong layer

Phishing defenses need to move beyond filtering malicious messages and training employees toward stronger identity, authentication and access controls that reduce the consequences of successful deception.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4231923/we-are-fighting-phishing-at-the-wrong-layer.html

 

When The Attacker Is Reading Your  Incident Response 

Incident response strategies must account for adversaries who can observe defensive activities, anticipate containment measures and exploit predictable response procedures, making operational secrecy and adaptability essential.

https://www.cybersecurityintelligence.com/blog/when-the-attacker-is-reading-your-incident-response-9820.html

 

Bring Your Own Agent: Your Employees' Assistants Are Already Logged In

As employees connect personal AI agents to corporate systems, organizations must treat those agents as external identities with explicitly controlled permissions, rather than allowing them to inherit employees' access without independent oversight

https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/bring-your-own-agent-your-employees.html

 

AI is changing work. Now it has to change the organization

Capturing the full value of agentic AI requires organizations to redesign roles, workflows, talent development and accountability around business outcomes, rather than simply adding AI tools to existing structures.

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organization/our-insights/ai-is-changing-work-now-it-has-to-change-the-organization

 

Why process excellence will become the competitive advantage in the AI economy

As AI models become increasingly accessible and commoditized, competitive differentiation will depend on how effectively organizations understand, redesign and execute their business processes rather than on the technology they deploy.

https://www.cio.com/article/4233868/why-process-excellence-will-become-the-competitive-advantage-in-the-ai-economy.html

 

How CIOs can climb out of the AI governance chasm

With employees developing AI applications and agents faster than IT can govern them, CIOs must close growing gaps in visibility, financial control, accountability and operational oversight through coordinated, practical governance.

https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/how-cios-can-climb-out-of-the-ai-governance-chasm

 

The CEO’s singular impact on the success—or failure—of AI in organizations

AI transformation cannot be delegated to technology leaders alone because only CEOs can raise strategic ambitions, redesign organizational structures and reshape corporate culture to turn widespread AI adoption into sustainable enterprise value.

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/the-ceos-singular-impact-on-the-success-or-failure-of-ai-in-organizations

 

Corix Partners is a Boutique Management Consultancy Firm and Thought-Leadership Platform, focused on assisting CIOs and other C-level executives in resolving Cyber Security Strategy, Organisation & Governance challenges.

Our Founder and CEO JC Gaillard is is a leading strategic advisor and a globally-recognised cybersecurity thought-leader with over 25 years of experience developed in several financial institutions in the UK and continental Europe, and a track-record at driving fundamental change in the security field across global organisations, looking beyond the technical horizon into strategy, governance, culture, and the real dynamics of business transformation.

He is the author of:

• “Cyber Security: The Lost Decade – A Security Governance Handbook for the CISO and the CIO” first published in September 2017 with updated annual editions released every year up to 2021;
• “The CyberSecurity Leadership Handbook for the CISO and the CEO” first released on Amazon in February 2023 (updated edition released in July 2024);
• “The Cybersecurity Spiral of Failure” released on Amazon in January 2024, and
• “The First 100 Days of the New CISO” released on Amazon in November 2025

By Jean-Christophe Gaillard

Keywords: Cybersecurity, GRC, Leadership

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