There have been many examples from my career – from advising the International Monetary Fund on security matters during the Arab Spring through responding to humanitarian crises prior to the European Refugee Crisis - where I had hoped there was a need for a more well-funded and re-purposed security apparatus.
The security incidents that have occurred over recent years have caused immeasurable damage (financial loss, the damage to organizations’ reputations and the loss of lives). The threat landscape that organizations face is changing rapidly. For instance, the Solar Winds Cyber-attack from February 2021 was estimated to have cost insurers 90 million U.S. dollars. Emerging risks for corporate companies include those of far-right terrorist groups developing the sophistication and capabilities to seize senior corporate staff, or the vulnerabilities stemming from the growing risks of disinformation attacks against executives and companies across the world, which could cause irreparable damage to company share prices.