APL Colloquium

May 4, 2018

Colloquium Topic: Cybersecurity Leadership: The Key to Organizational Success

Our hyper-connected world, comprised of myriad networks – both machine and human – has brought us to the precipice of a fundamental revolution and redefinition of the human experience and our socio-political and military world order. According Dr. Hasib, failure of executives to grasp this pivotal change, and their concomitant failure to tailor organizational and business strategy to the new reality, is the primary cause of organizational malaise and the massive cybersecurity breaches we have experienced.

Dr. Mansur Hasib will share the key lessons from his book Cybersecurity Leadership: Powering the Modern Organization. Dr. Hasib explains the evolution of academic cybersecurity models from 1991 and shares his own contributions to the models. He explains why cybersecurity should be viewed as people powered perpetual innovation. Though technology and policy are required, people are the most important aspect of any organizational digital strategy. For any organization, cybersecurity can be a key mission driver powered by people who are perpetually innovating.

At the speaker's request, this colloquium was not recorded.



Colloquium Speaker: Mansur Hasib

Dr. Mansur Hasib is the only cybersecurity and healthcare leader, author, speaker, and media commentator in the world with 12 years’ experience as Chief Information Officer, a Doctor of Science in Cybersecurity (IA), and the prestigious CISSP, PMP, and CPHIMS certifications. Dr. Hasib has 30 years of experience in leading organizational transformations through digital leadership and cybersecurity strategy in healthcare, biotechnology, education, and energy. Dr. Hasib currently teaches the art of cybersecurity leadership, digital innovation and strategy to graduate students and executives worldwide and is Program Chair of the (ISC)2 Americas ISLA Award Winning Master of Science in Cybersecurity Technology Degree Program in The Graduate School at University of Maryland University College (UMUC).

With a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Politics and a Master’s degree in Political Science, Dr. Hasib has a unique interdisciplinary perspective in digital strategy, business innovation, and cybersecurity. He is the author of Cybersecurity Leadership: Powering the Modern Organization, which received two nominations for The Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame – and is currently contending for induction in 2018. He conducted a national study of US healthcare cybersecurity and published the book Impact of Security Culture on Security Compliance in Healthcare in the USA. He has also published Muses and Rhymes – a collection of poems he wrote as a youth.

Dr. Hasib received the 2017 Cybersecurity People’s Choice Award and the 2017 Information Governance Expert of the Year Award.

Dr. Hasib enjoys table tennis, comedy, and travel and has been to all 50 states of the USA. Follow him on Twitter @mhasib or LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mansurhasib. Visit Dr. Hasib’s website for content and updates: www.cybersecurityleadership.com.