Greg Van Der Gaast

Achieving Security Outcomes

A thought-provoking big-picture view of information security, why today’s approaches are not working – every year the world spends more on cybersecurity platforms and personnel and every year the number and scale of breaches increases – and what can we learn from other industries on how to reduce not just our exposure but our costs too?

Turning Security from a Cost to a Competitive Advantage

Once one considers that security is essentially a quality proposition (vulnerabilities are defects) we can not only strive to make superior security a commercial differentiator, but we can also leverage security defects as indicators of quality defects elsewhere. Addressing those issues doesn’t just reduce the introduction of defects, it tends to streamline operations, reduce defects, rework, increase agility, reduce compute costs and much more.
At a time where CISOs are being challenged to show ROI on risk reduction, we present instead that a security function can provide significant contributions to the bottom line. Risk reduction effectively becomes a free side-effect above and beyond tangible savings made through quality improvements to processes throughout the organisation.

Strategy, Leadership & Human Potential

Most cybersecurity strategies centre around the implementation of tools and platforms to mitigate issues, but not the aspects of the business that are creating the issues in the first place. Achieving the latter, in order to reverse the tide of ever-increasing security problems, requires approaches and leadership skills rarely considered in cyber security.

In this talk we explain what an effective business strategy towards the outcome of security looks like, the leadership skills needed to overcome the hurdles faced, and how to maximise the potential of security teams in organisations.

How Organisations Can Protect Themselves with Unconventional Approaches

Strategy, Leadership & Human Potential

Turning Security from a Cost to a Competitive Advantage