We’ve seen lots of 2016 cyber­se­cu­ri­ty pre­dic­tion lists in the past cou­ple of weeks. Like this one, or this one, or this one.

What would real­ly be use­ful is if some­one would make a pre­dic­tion about the sin­gle biggest thing a com­pa­ny can do in one stroke to low­er their cyber risks in the com­ing year.

Here’s my pre­dic­tion:

The cyber­se­cu­ri­ty exec­u­tives who will make the great­est dif­fer­ence in 2016 will do so by align­ing all their peo­ple, crit­i­cal process­es, super­vi­sors, and tech­nol­o­gy to their cyber­se­cu­ri­ty strat­e­gy.

Hap­py New Year!