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1. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Scott Sumner

   Stop Relying On Cyber Risk Heatmaps (opens the original)

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   Scott Sumner is CISO at DS Government Solutions, the Government Solution Arm of Dassault Systemes. The CISO has spent 40 minutes walking the board through a tidy slide deck. Ransomware is red; insider threat is yellow. The formatting looks great, and the language is clear. The directors have been listening attentively until the audit committee chair asks: "What does red mean in dollars, and how confident are you?" The CISO doesn't have an answer. The heatmap wasn't designed to answer that questi

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2. Article · Jul 17, 2026 · Scott Sumner

   The Three Questions Every Security Leader Should Ask (opens the original)

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   ​Scott Sumner is chief information security officer at Dassault Systèmes. When a company suffers a breach, the CISO is often the first person held responsible and, at times, not in a position to prevent it. The mismatch between what companies ask of CISOs and what they actually give them has been growing, and it often becomes a personal liability in the process.​ Security leaders are being asked to take on more accountability than ever before while receiving less structural support, less real au

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