Clarity Factory CEO, Rachel Briggs, joined Manish Mehta on this week’s Ontic Connected Intelligence podcast to discuss our Holistic Security report and maturity model.

• Why we need to close the gap between physical and cyber security so our businesses are safer and more resilient
• Why this is critical now, because companies are so dependent on technology for all their systems and process, and the growing dependency between being physically safe and digitally safe
• Why only 15% of organisations have converged and brought their cyber and physical security teams together.
• The Holistic Security Maturity Model, including:
• The importance of focusing on outcomes rather than organisational models
• The 8 success factors for effective partnership: culture and identity, leadership, incentives, clarity of roles, professional development, reporting lines, operational arrangements, and governance.
• How the maturity model is designed to foster partnership, by avoiding terminology, being informed by organisational change best practice, and offering the flexibility to allow organisations to decide the pace and scale of partnership that’s right for them.
• The challenges to Holistic Security, in particular the culture clash between physical and cyber security professionals and the wrong kind of leadership.
• The importance of leaders who see themselves as risk leaders rather than functional leaders, who look up and out rather than downwards into their narrow remit.
• How Holistic Security supercharges operational resilience.
• Examples of success and best practice.

Rachel closes the conversation with five pieces of advice for CSOs and CISOs wanting to explore Holistic Security:

1. Start the conversation with your CSO or CISO with curiosity rather than pre-conceived ideas about what partnership should look like
2. Take convergence off the table to avoid defensiveness creeping into the conversation
3. Don’t try to boil the ocean: pick one low effort / high reward area where you can partner with positive impact on one another, as well as the wider organisation
4. Start socialising Holistic Security with your manager
5. Be patient: effective partnership takes time.

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