Cybersecurity ABCs

6 UNDERSTANDING CULTURE

Bruce Hallas

Culture eats strategy for breakfast!

(attributed to Peter Drucker)

This is an old adage, widely used. It’s often quoted when explaining some of the greatest failures in corporate history and international diplomacy. However, it is more often the unrecognised and therefore misunderstood root cause of many of the challenges we face, day to day, when trying to influence anyone to get behind a new or even old course of action including cybersecurity.

Mergers and acquisitions, often examined minutely by analysts and advisers, management consultants and the media and vastly experienced business and organisational leaders, have, at significant cost to stakeholders and society, failed to deliver against expectations. ...