Strategic thinking
Lack of strategic thinking and inability to articulate the big picture to inspire.
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Six Pillars of Cyber Leadership Performance
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Six key limitations
What holds cyber leaders back?
To stand out from the crowd and accelerate your career, you need to address 6 key limitations of cyber leadership performance.
Business value
Not knowing how to deliver business value in risk buy-down transformation programs.
Decision overwhelm
Allowing overwhelm to affect your decisions and organisational outcomes.
Stakeholder influence
Limited ability to influence key stakeholders.
Focused learning
Lack of clarity on where to focus your learning to deliver insights.
Behaviour change
Failing to drive positive behaviour change in others and oneself.
The solution
Discover the STRIKE® Cyber Leadership Framework.
Learn about the six pillars and focus on what matters most.
- Reference model for leading in domain skills.
- Alignment to the Five Anchors of Cyber Resilience capability.
STRIKE® is the proprietary framework at the heart of the Cyber Leadership Program. Ready to take the brakes off your career?
STRIKE self-assessment
How do you score on the six pillars?
Rate yourself against each STRIKE® pillar in a few minutes and see where to focus first.
Six pillars. A few minutes. A clear picture of where you stand.
The assessment opens right here on the page and takes you through the six STRIKE® pillars in turn.
Ready to close the gaps? Explore the Cyber Leadership Program→
Built by practitioners
The founders behind STRIKE®.
STRIKE® was distilled from three careers spent accountable for cyber risk at global scale — and from what its founders saw stopping capable cyber professionals from reaching the executive table.
Phil Zongo
CEO and Co-Founder
Award-winning cyber executive, Forbes Business Council member and author of the Amazon bestseller The Cyber Leadership Imperative.
Darren Argyle
Chairman and Co-Founder
Group Chief Information Security Risk Officer at Standard Chartered Bank and former Global CISO at Qantas, named one of the world’s top 100 CISOs.
Jan Schreuder
Co-Founder
Former PwC Cyber Security Partner and Asia-Pacific Cyber Security Leader, with more than three decades advising Boards and executives on cyber resilience.
Testimonials
Standing out in your industry looks like this
Cyber leaders who built their careers on the six pillars, in their own words.
★★★★★
I want to thank you again for the incredible Cyber Leadership Program. I find myself often going back to the playbooks and notes that I took throughout the program. Though I have a lot more to learn, a lifetime’s worth, I know that going through the program has helped level up the work and impact I make professionally.
SZ
Steve Zenone Information Security Leader | San Francisco Bay Area
★★★★★
Challenging, inspiring program, the rollup call at the end of the week solidifies the content and shows the true value of collaboration! For anyone who has an appetite for a fast-paced, challenging mind-expanding course, which can only enhance their career path to a CISO, it is thoroughly recommended.
JH
John Handley Cyber Security and Risk Consultant | Ireland
★★★★★
For me, the eight-week long cyber resilience strategy assignment was vital. Having ongoing access to experienced mentors and proven experts, pre-scanned templates, and peer cyber leaders to challenge my thinking, helped me refine my leadership, influencing, communication and strategy skills. I am already using these skills to reshape my own cyber resilience strategy.
JD
Josué Delgado CISO | Lisbon, Portugal
CISO Playbook series and other free resources
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