Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

‍ ‍Risk managers have long used registers to keep track of and manage the threats their organizations face, and, as cyber risk emerged in the 21st century as one of the core market concerns, cybersecurity leaders, too, started to harness these tools to structure and prioritize their cyber-related exposure. However, while risk registers offer a starting point for this process, many have not evolved beyond their early design, remaining static qualitative inventories.

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‍ ‍ ‍Both the Marks & Spencer ransomware attack and the Qantas breach dominated headlines for weeks, each exposing serious lapses in how data and risk were managed at the organizational level. But within the cybersecurity community, the response took a different turn. Unlike with other commentary post-cyber incidents, the focus quickly moved away from compromised systems and toward something more structural. These weren’t framed as technical breakdowns.