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Home » Authors » Kathleen Kotwica Ph.D.
Kathleen Kotwica Ph.D.

Kathleen Kotwica Ph.D.

Kathleen Kotwica, Ph.D., is EVP and chief knowledge strategist for the Security Executive Council (SEC). She develops strategies and processes to identify, store, understand, build upon, and disseminate the Council’s Collective Knowledge™ and insights.. To learn about becoming involved, or to offer comments or questions about Next Generation Security leadership, e-mail contact@secleader.com or visit https://www.securityexecutivecouncil.com/sm.
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Bob Hayes and Kathleen Kotwica

Security’s 2012 Accomplishments and 2013 To-Do List

Karen Kotwica
Kathleen Kotwica Ph.D.
Bob Hayes
Bob Hayes
December 1, 2012

At the New Year we find ourselves reflecting on who we are as an industry, what we’re doing and where we hope to be. Our ongoing research of security-related issues has shed light on some remarkable changes in the security industry in the last ten years, many of which are driven by technology advances and shifts in the business environment.


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How Business and Risk Drivers Impact Mitigation Strategy

Bob Hayes
Bob Hayes
Karen Kotwica
Kathleen Kotwica Ph.D.
Marleah Blades
December 1, 2012
As business changes, so does – or so should – security. The direction of business can have significant consequences for security, both internally – in terms of influence, funding and organizational structure – and externally – in new threats, new risk, new mitigation requirements. Are you watching business trends and thinking about how they should impact security and your strategies to mitigate risk?
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Bob Hayes and Kathleen Kotwica

Eleven Areas for Improvement

Bob Hayes
Bob Hayes
Karen Kotwica
Kathleen Kotwica Ph.D.
October 1, 2011
In our July column, we discussed the dangerous gap in the transfer of knowledge between visionary security leaders and the next generation of leaders who will have to take up the mantle after them. Then in August, we laid out a roadmap for a new type of training that would help to close that gap. But what topics do up-and-coming leaders need to know more about?
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Bob Hayes and Kathleen Kotwica

Benchmarks Aren’t Magic, They’re Tools

Bob Hayes
Bob Hayes
Karen Kotwica
Kathleen Kotwica Ph.D.
September 6, 2011
Security executives frequently come to us to request assistance in benchmarking their processes or performance metrics with similar companies. Usually we find that their interest is at least partially driven by a strong push from management. Business leaders recognize benchmarking as a proven business practice that can identify competitive strengths and vulnerabilities as well as opportunities for improvement. Benchmarking can inform corporate goal-setting and can play a significant role in strategic planning.
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Kathleen Kotwica & Bob Hayes

A Roadmap to the Next Generation

Bob Hayes
Bob Hayes
Karen Kotwica
Kathleen Kotwica Ph.D.
August 2, 2011

Last month we talked about the knowledge transfer gap that exists in the security profession. We posited that the best of the best of security practitioners don’t have the time to teach their successors how to become future-oriented, business-aligned organizational influencers, and that the business-focused training programs available for security professionals do a great job of talking business, but they fail to marry business processes with the job of risk mitigation.


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Karen Kotwica and Bob Hayes

Is the Knowledge Transfer Gap Hurting Security?

Bob Hayes
Bob Hayes
Karen Kotwica
Kathleen Kotwica Ph.D.
July 1, 2011

Adding business value. Getting a seat at the table. Running security like a business. Aligning security with the organization. These are the contents of the Holy Grail of security leadership. Everybody talks about them. Everybody wants them. But most security leaders view them as the stuff of legend – great for motivation, but unattainable in reality.


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Crisis Management at the Speed of Internet

Karen Kotwica
Kathleen Kotwica Ph.D.
June 1, 2010
What would you do if a YouTube video of your company’s employees willfully flouting policy and endangering customers went viral and was getting tens of thousands of hits a day?
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The Real Impact of the Downturn

Karen Kotwica
Kathleen Kotwica Ph.D.
May 1, 2009
Business leaders around the world are struggling to determine exactly how the global economic downturn will impact their operations and profitability. Among security leadership specifically, one oft-asked question is whether
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