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The Cyber Oversight Card: 48 Questions Every Board Member Should Be Able to Answer

There's no single source that maps cyber governance topics to their actual consequences—SEC enforcement, denied.....
👉🏻 9 months ago

The Three Lines of Defense

Most board members have heard "three lines of defense" in every risk committee meeting. Few.....
👉🏻 9 months ago

The Problem With “I Can’t Wait for This Year to Be Over”

I always find it strange when people say, “I can’t wait for this year to.....
👉🏻 10 months ago

Unpopular Opinion: Your Fiscal Year Is Working Against You

Unpopular opinion: fiscal years that don’t align with the calendar year feel unnatural. When your.....
👉🏻 10 months ago

Dormant Vendors, Active Risk: When “We Stopped Using Them” Isn’t Enough

Pornhub and OpenAI were breached through the same analytics vendor — but the real risk.....
👉🏻 10 months ago

If You Don’t Know Your MTCR, You Aren’t Asking the Right Questions

RTO tells you how fast you can restore systems. It says nothing about whether those.....
👉🏻 10 months ago

Your CISO Might Be Unprotected — And That’s a Board Problem

The SEC's case against SolarWinds' CISO was dismissed — but the era of individual accountability.....
👉🏻 10 months ago

Micro Negotiations: How Small Concessions Quietly Destroy Margin

Most margin loss doesn’t come from one bad negotiation. It comes from dozens of small.....
👉🏻 10 months ago

Ken Stasiak

Negotiations, Cyber Risk & Growth

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Formally trained by Harvard and Kellogg. Validated in the trenches — 25+ years, hundreds of deals, billions in contract value.