Periodic musings
Most board directors still treat cybersecurity as something they oversee: a dashboard, a quarterly report, a briefing from the CISO. That framing is now incomplete.
Directors are not just governing cyber risk. They are increasingly part of the attack surface itself, in an environment where AI has dramatically lowered the cost, speed, and precision of attacks, the gap between what directors assume about their own exposure and what adversaries already understand is rapidly widening.
Read MoreThe dream of global expansion has fundamentally shifted. That "low-cost, high-speed" playbook of the past decade has been replaced by one with a focus on the "high-resilience, high-compliance" reality. For small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the barriers to entry are no longer limited to finding a distributor of a local salesperson; those barriers include navigating a fragmented geopolitical landscape and meeting rigorous new digital and ethical standards.
Read MoreThis week reinforces that boards are being evaluated less on intent and more on demonstrable governance discipline - independence, documented process, and evidence that the board is actively engaged.
Read MoreA board member recently confided: "We discuss AI in every committee meeting, but I couldn't tell you who actually owns it." This isn't just confusion—it's a governance gap creating real compliance exposure and regulatory risk.
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