The main objectives of strategic leadership are to streamline processes, boost strategic productivity, promote innovation and cultivate an environment that encourages employees to be productive, independent and to push forward their own ideas. Generally, an organization’s leaders practice strategic leadership by using different styles of management and developing a vision that enables the organization to […]

Leadership training has become a balancing act between understanding technology and having an appreciation for ethics.  Of course, no single code of technology ethics can fit all contexts and practitioners. Organizations should therefore develop explicit internal policies, procedures, guidelines, and best practices that are specifically adapted to their own activities and challenges. Some aspects to […]

While experience and skill sets are essential for effective leadership, there’s another dimension often overlooked by organizations — core values.  Values-based leadership philosophy asserts that people are mostly motivated by values and live according to these beliefs. In other words, values are our most natural motivator. Companies that are led by leaders guided by core […]

Effective executive leaders require the necessary tools and skills to inspire and impact their teams allowing firms to run competently and smoothly.  However, the problem in many organizations is that those tools and skill sets have changed in the era of digitalization, Internet of Things and Smart everything. Used to be, it was enough for […]

Any organization where data plays a crucial role is vulnerable to business continuity interruption. This includes every kind of organization from national retailers to sprawling government agencies and the military. When data centers fail, catastrophe may follow. Business downtown can cost upward of $10,000 per minute, not to mention the inability to deliver services to […]

It’s not surprising that more and more organizations are turning to the cloud for storing their data.  Cloud security delivers numerous levels of control in a network infrastructure to afford protection and continuity. It’s a necessary component in creating an atmosphere that works for businesses all over the world. The advantages of cloud computing may […]

Hardware security is vulnerability protection that comes in the form of a physical device rather than software that is installed on the hardware of a computer system. Hardware security can pertain to a device used to scan a system or monitor network traffic. Common examples include hardware firewalls and proxy servers. Less common examples include […]

Airports and the air traffic networks upon which global aviation relies are extremely important to local economies as well as to the importance to transport infrastructure. The enormous reliance on computer networks and technology just to operate on a day-to-day basis, increasingly places this infrastructure at an elevated risk of cyber-attack. In the past, cybersecurity […]

Cybersecurity is no longer just about protecting digital data produced by organizations and agencies – it’s also a vital consideration in the automotive industry. Cybersecurity has risen in importance as the automotive industry undergoes a transformation driven by new personal-mobility concepts, autonomous driving, vehicle electrification, and car connectivity. In the new digital era, this problem is increasingly disturbing as vulnerabilities may exist within a […]

Sometimes referred to as the “next generation” computer system, cyber physical systems (CPS) is a category of embedded system that uses smart computation techniques associated with physical world and computational units. The CPS can interact with the real-world systems by means of computation, communication and controls. The interaction of computational and physical units leads to advanced […]