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 >> Cybersecurity and AI are entering a new phase: The technology is advancing, but management and execution remain the weak links.

- Cybersecurity is fundamentally a leadership challenge, not a technology problem
- Cyber insurance cannot substitute for genuine resilience
- Resilience plans are only as good as their execution
- AI is transforming cyber threats, but exposing longstanding weaknesses in vulnerability management
- AI security benchmarks still provide an incomplete picture of risk
- New AI security leadership roles are emerging as executive responsibilities evolve
- Enterprise AI value lies in solving specific business problems, not chasing artificial general intelligence

The common thread? Organizations don't need to chase every technological breakthrough. They need stronger leadership, clearer accountability and disciplined execution to turn innovation into genuine business protection, resilience and measurable value.

 

Cybersecurity Is A Leadership Problem—Not A Technology Problem

The persistent shortcomings of cybersecurity are rooted less in technology than in fragmented governance, unclear accountability and weak execution, requiring business leaders to treat cybersecurity as a core business protection responsibility rather than a technical function.

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2026/10/26/cybersecurity-is-a-leadership-problem-not-a-technology-problem/

 

Cyber Insurance's New Reality: Underwriting Isn't Enough

Cyber insurers must move beyond evaluating and pricing risk at the point of underwriting toward continuous risk monitoring and active support for policyholders' security and resilience throughout the insurance lifecycle.

https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/cyber-insurances-underwriting-isnt-enough

 

Why Cyber Resilience Plans Fail in Practice

Cyber resilience plans often fall short because documented procedures are not matched by realistic testing, clear decision-making authority, cross-functional coordination and the operational capabilities needed during an actual crisis.

https://thesiliconreview.com/2026/10/why-cyber-resilience-plans-fail-in-practice

 

The ‘Mythos moment’ has already passed. Now comes the hard part for cybersecurity

The emergence of powerful AI capabilities for discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities is shifting the cybersecurity challenge from recognizing AI's disruptive potential to adapting defensive processes, organizational capabilities and response speed.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4239166/the-mythos-moment-has-already-passed-now-comes-the-hard-part-for-cybersecurity.html

 

AI Didn't Break Vulnerability Management: it Exposed its Biggest Weakness

AI is magnifying a longstanding weakness in vulnerability management: organizations can identify far more vulnerabilities than they can effectively prioritize, remediate and manage within their operational constraints.

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/ai-vulnerability-management/

 

So Many AI Security Benchmarks, But None Tell the Whole Story

Public AI security benchmarks measure different capabilities and provide useful comparisons, but organizations must evaluate models against their own applications, workflows and unacceptable risks to determine whether they deliver meaningful security improvements.

https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-analytics/benchmarking-security-of-ai-models-poses-challenges

 

Head of AI Security Roles Surge in Large Organizations

The growing appointment of dedicated AI security leaders reflects the recognition that securing AI systems requires explicit ownership, specialized expertise and coordination across cybersecurity, technology and enterprise governance.

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/head-ai-security-roles/

 

AI is rewriting the C-suite playbook

AI is reshaping executive responsibilities, decision-making and organizational structures, requiring CEOs to rethink leadership roles, workforce capabilities and operating models rather than simply adding AI to existing business processes.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/ai-is-rewriting-the-c-suite-playbook

 

Three horizons of quantum: A business road map to the future computing economy

Quantum technologies are progressing toward commercial applications across computing, communications and sensing, requiring business leaders to plan investments and partnerships now while preparing for the long-term cybersecurity implications of quantum computing.

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/three-horizons-of-quantum-a-business-road-map-to-the-future-computing-economy

 

Enterprises don’t need artificial general intelligence. They need artificial specific intelligence

Enterprise AI success depends less on increasingly powerful general-purpose models than on their ability to incorporate organization-specific knowledge, address real business workflows and demonstrate measurable outcomes.

https://www.cio.com/article/4238580/enterprises-dont-need-artificial-general-intelligence-they-need-artificial-specific-intelligence.html

 

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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