Swiss Times

  By the Swiss Times Business Desk Professor Kai London — board advisor & interim CISO/CIO/CTO. Credit: professorkailondon.com For financial institutions, the tightening web of cyber regulation can feel like an ever-growing tax on doing business. Professor Kai London , a senior CISO and board advisor, urges leaders to see it differently. “Resilience regulation is not a tax,” he says. “It is a specification for the trust your customers already expect. The institutions that treat it as an operating standard, rather than a compliance chore, turn it into an advantage.” “Every serious financial institution is being asked the same question by regulators, partners and clients: can you keep running, and can you prove it? The ones who answer confidently will win the business the others cannot.” A converging rulebook London notes that financial firms increasingly sit at the intersection of several resilience regimes — sector-specific operational-resilience rules, the broader network-and-...

New whitepaper from Professor Kieran Upadrasta offers boards a strategic lifeline as CISO tenure drops to an average of 18 months. LONDON, UK – January 21, 2026 – As the average tenure of Chief Information Security Officers falls to a critical low of 18–26 months, organizations are increasingly facing dangerous "leadership vacuums." Addressing this volatility, globally recognized cybersecurity strategist Professor Kieran Upadrasta has today released “Commanding the Crisis: An Interim CISO’s 90-Day Roadmap to Boardroom Confidence.” The whitepaper introduces a proprietary 90-Day Command Framework, a methodology designed to help interim leaders and Boards of Directors rapidly quantify risk, stabilize governance, and ensure regulatory compliance during the fragile period of executive transition. The Strategic Gap "When a CISO departs, they don't just take their laptop; they take the institutional memory of the organization's risk posture," said Professor Upadras...