Commentary
Making Better Cyber Risk Decisions By Architecting the Choices
Author(s):
Malcolm Harkins, Chief Security and Trust Officer, Epiphany Systems
“Victory awaits him who has everything in order. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take all the necessary precautions in time.” Roald Amundsen, on the South Pole. Uncertainty, chaos, and luck – why some thrive despite them all. In the book Great by Choice, Jim Collins and Morten Hansen distill a decade’s … Read more


Malcolm Harkins is Chief Security and Trust Officer at Epiphany Systems. He is responsible for information risk and security including security and privacy policies, peer-outreach activities to build understanding of cyber risks, and best practices to manage and mitigate those risks. Focus areas include the ethics of technology risk, social responsibility, total cost of controls, and industry accountability. Malcolm is an independent board member and advisor to many organizations. Malcolm served as Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cylance and was Chief Security and Privacy Officer at Intel. He is the author of Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable, now in its second edition.