Leadership
Boudica are leaders in Civic Cybersecurity
We've given evidence to UK Treasury on Cash. Despite unremitting propaganda from digital fintech we've had an impact on the important social function of preserving cash and giving wider appreciation of it as an advanced physical technology and element of national security, [at least in Europe]
We've given evidence to the European Commission on Open-Source Digital Ecosystems. Currently under review and amendment.
Leadership requires we:
- Research and listen to experts and ordinary people
- See clearly what is needed
- Communicate that succinctly and unambiguously
- Act and lead by example, from the front
- Be accountable
To these ends;
- Our clarity comes through 40 years of experience, research, original creativity and a high level of education.
- Our communication is described as exemplary, has won prestigious awards and is valued by governments and international organisations.
- We teach exactly what we practice ourselves.
- Our work is relational, thorough, and on the level.
Global leadership crisis
In these difficult times leadeship is unglamorous. It inspires little popularity. It's work against the grain and out of necessity the harder path. Though we cannot directly lead, we can teach you to become leaders of your own organisation with respect to digital security, which is also a useful life-long skill for all individuals.
Today we face a frightening crisis of leadership in the world. There's no shortage of experts, consultants, think-tanks and gurus, yet just look at the world:
- Stress and anxiety around technology is rampant
- Cyber crime is at an all time high
- Digital literacy is at an all time low
- Many benefits of technology are losing out to downsides
Standard advice goes along with the crowd and avoids "treading on toes".
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Fact is, we've all bitten-off more technical complexity than we can chew. We have effectively lost control of technology. Regaining control is the first step toward any kind of effective security.
This is particularly true in the technology sector, which is quite rudderless. Many IT people have become "Lions led by donkeys" and suffer from a sense of learned helplessness if not hopelessness and despair. Ambitious individuals occupy positions of organisational power but increasingly lack proper knowledge of digital systems and are not the level-headed leaders the world needs. They display;
- neophye over-excitement
- lack of perspective
- acceptance of high levels of risk and false positives
- vainglory, form over function, "keeping up" and "looking good"
- lack of; self-examination, humility, fallibility
Such are the leaders of a race to the bottom, now playing out in so many institutions. As confidence wanes the temptation to automate away difficult decisions increases. So capital and FUD edges us toward dehumanisation via "AI" and automation, a dangerous situation in which people disown responsibility, cede more control, while losing creative opportunity for escape.
The result is a bonfire of human potential:
- precious talents wasted on makework
- profitable but useless trivia and distraction
- security theatre
- ineffective tick-box compliance
We expect and demand better. We think you should too. The courage required to rethink cybersecurity starts with identifying like minds out there.