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N° 01 · Featured this season

The field manual we wish every new executive had read first.

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N° 02 · Framework

On assessing AI Risks and Opportunities

A Group Support System methodology for AI risk and opportunity assessments: a structured, collaborative approach that brings legal, technical, operational, and HR perspectives together. It reduces bias, hierarchy, and blind spots, turning debate into accountable decisions and actionable risk treatment across the AI lifecycle.

Framework → Open
N° 03 · Essay PDF

On Turning Incidents Into Resilience

Bobbert and Papelard show why boards should treat incidents as learning moments. Culture, executive commitment, response speed, and asset insight matter as much as frameworks or technology.

Read · 10 min → Open
N° 04 · Book Book in PDF

On Implementing Compliance in FinTech - A Handbook

Compliance requirements such as MiCA, NIS2 and DORA turns digital resilience into a board-level operating requirement. This handbook shows how FinTech firms can scope critical chains, assign ownership, reuse controls, and prove compliance through GRC.

Book → Open
N° 05 · Framework PDF

On Essential Teaching Methods for Next Generations

Group Support Systems help educators "flip the classroom" by moving basic preparation outside class and using classroom time for structured dialogue, ordering, voting, reflection, and documented learning outcomes.

Read · 12 min → Open
N° 06 · Book 5 min

On the Skills That Create Digital Value

Digital value creation depends on more than technology. Bobbert and co-authors show how human capital, cloud strategy, partnerships, and collaboration methods turn capability into business value.

Read · 5 min → Open
N° 07 · Template

On Skills & Capabilities For Digital Leaders - Template

Skills & Capabilities Template distilled from Exploring Skills and Capabilities for Digital Value Creation. It is written for leaders who need to identify, recruit, develop, and retain the right digital skills without reducing capability management to a generic HR exercise.

Template → Open
N° 08 · Framework PDF

On Diversity as a Capability - An Assessment Template for Hiring Managers

Cybersecurity talent scarcity is not only a hiring problem. Bobbert, Djotaroeno, and Van Gils show how diversity, inclusion, neurodiversity, and learning capacity strengthen security teams.

Read · 22 min → Open
N° 09 · Essay Interview

On Inspirational Leadership - Interview

ISACA profiles Yuri Bobbert, 2025 Inspirational Leadership Award winner, as a leader shaped by curiosity, plurality, and daily learning. He draws energy from varied roles across academia, business, boards, and investment, and frames leadership less as goal-chasing than as embracing the journey with passion, resilience, and collaboration.

Read · 5 min → Open
N° 10 · Framework Website

On Agility at the top; Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) gives firms flexible cyber leadership

A vCISO gives organisations strategic security leadership without the cost of a full-time hire. Read here the three things companies should consider

Read · 14 min → Open
N° 02 · The shelf

Books kept within arm's reach.

Volume · 01

Strategic Approaches to Digital Platform Security Assurance

Bobbert et al.
Year · 2021
Volume · 02

Leading in Digital Security

Y. Bobbert
Year · 2020
Volume · 03

Improving the Maturity of Business Information Security

Y. Bobbert
Year · 2018
Volume · 04

Exploring Capabilities & Skills for Digital Value Creation

Bobbert et al.
Year · 2018
Volume · 05

Cybersecurity in 60 Minutes

Y. Bobbert
Year · 2018
Volume · 06

25 Years of Group Support Systems

Contributed volume
Year · —
Volume · 07

CISO Handbook

Y. Bobbert
Year · —
Volume · 08

Hoe veilig is mijn aandeel?

Y. Bobbert · NL
Year · —
Volume · 09

Maturing Business Information Security

Y. Bobbert
Year · 2010

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