Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

John White is the Field CISO for EMEA at Torq. A respected security executive with more than 20 years of leadership experience, John previously served as CISO at Virgin Atlantic, where he led a multi-year transformation deploying the Torq AI SOC Platform to modernize cyber operations. Prior to Virgin Atlantic, he built and transformed security functions for global organizations, including ASOS, Liberty Global, AEG Europe, and KPMG.

Every quarter, your board asks the same question, just phrased differently: Are we more secure than we were last time? A point-in-time assessment can't answer it, because it shows where you stood on the day someone ran it, not which way things are moving. Security posture monitoring is the correct response to give to the board. This guide answers the three questions behind every board pack: what goes in front of the board, where the number comes from, and how you show it moved.

A model built on industry data produces an industry answer. The obvious next step is to calibrate it to the specific environment, and the obvious place to start is the threat picture, because every organization believes its own is distinctive. ‍ It is the wrong parameter to start with. Some inputs should stay general, some must be local, and the ones that must be local are the harder ones to observe, which is why they get left at a default. ‍