Designing Proportionate Cybersecurity Frameworks for European Micro-Enterprises: Lessons from the Squad 2025 Case

Micro and small enterprises SMEs account for most European businesses yet remain highly vulnerable to cyber threats. This paper analyses the design logic of a recent European policy initiative -- the Squad 2025 Playbook on Cybersecurity Awareness for Micro-SMEs -- to extract general principles fo...

Why don’t we sit around this computer console and have a sing-along?

Harnessing fire is one of mankind's earliest technological advances. A controlled, tame fire offers us warmth, light and succulent cooked food. Yet, allow the controlled fire to burn too fiercely and it risks becoming an uncontained fire. The unexpected smell of smoke or the sight of tall flames...

Generative AI in Financial Institution: a Global Survey of Opportunities, Threats, and Regulation

Generative Artificial Intelligence GenAI is rapidly reshaping the global financial landscape, offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance customer engagement, automate complex workflows, and extract actionable insights from vast financial data. This survey provides an overview of GenAI adopti...

CISO Stressbusters Post #3: 3 ways to share accountability for security risk management

Jim Eckart, former Chief Information Security Officer CISO of The Coca-Cola Company and current Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft shares his advice for relieving stress in today’s CISO Stressbuster post. If you are a CISO, it can feel like the responsibility for keeping the company secure rests...