Swiss Times

  By the Swiss Times Business Desk Professor Kai London — Founder & CEO, Quantum AI Systems Security. Credit: professorkailondon.com When a bank suffers a serious breach, the post-mortem almost always lands on the same word: identity. “In modern financial breaches, the decisive failure is rarely exotic malware,” says Professor Kai London , a senior CISO who advises financial institutions. “It is an identity — human or machine — that logged in when it should have been challenged, and could then reach far more than it ever should have.” His prescription centres on a single, board-friendly idea: manage the blast radius. “You will not prevent every intrusion. But you can decide, in advance, how far any single compromised identity is allowed to spread. In banking, that decision is the difference between an incident and a catastrophe.” The crown-jewel problem Banks run on a dense web of identities: employees, contractors, customers, service accounts, APIs and, increasingly, AI agents...

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...