INSIGHTS
Expert Perspectives, Publications,
and Next Peak Press
All Posts
CDAC Featured on “Click Here” Podcast Episode: “Rounding up a cyber posse for Ukraine”
They call themselves the Cyber Defense Assistance Collaboration (CDAC), and it is the brainchild of Greg Rattray, a former chief information security officer at JP Morgan Chase. For months, he has been helping build a kind of public-private partnership to combat destructive cyberattacks. This is the first time he’s speaking in depth about the initiative publicly.
New York Cyber Task Force Publishes New Report Calling for National Cyber Response Readiness
| Written By Gregory Rattray and Ian Pelekis | New York, NY – February 26, 2021 – Over the last year, the New York Cyber Task Force (NYCTF) gathered leading experts from business, policy and academia to analyze the degree to which the United States is ready for future cyber challenges to its national security. Today, the NYCTF will unveil its report on Enhancing Readiness for National Cyber Defense through Operational Collaboration, which identifies gaps in U.S. cyber response capabilities and details five recommendations for improving U.S. cyber readiness. The NYCTF examined the future to anticipate severe shocks adversaries might present in the cyber realm in order to identify areas to improve national cyber readiness. Task Force members, including Dmitri
Building a Focused Approach to Cyber Defense
| Written By Gregory Rattray and Jim Cummings | The cyber threat landscape is ever-changing, and organizations around the world must continuously reassess their cybersecurity capabilities to meet new defense challenges. Next Peak’s co-founders, Jim Cummings and Greg Rattray, have worked on the cyber defense frontlines for decades, and have seen the nature of the threat evolve through multiple iterations from both the public and private sector. They have leveraged deep strategic expertise and frontline experience to develop a holistic framework to help clients improve their cyber defense posture. In this blog post we explore the changing threat landscape and how Next Peak is uniquely positioned to help clients focus their approaches to cyber defense. A changing threat landscape and new
Understanding Cyber Operational Collaboration
| Written By Gregory Rattray, Co-Founder of Next Peak | Cyber operational collaboration enables deep, public-private partnerships to secure key critical infrastructure sectors from systemic cyber attacks. In recent years, the risk of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure has risen to the top of the US national security agenda. However, government and industry still lack an effective approach for shoulder-to-shoulder cooperation to detect, deter and respond to systemic cyber threats. Operational collaboration must combine the technological agility and expertise of the private sector with the authority for action against adversaries and national defense capabilities of the government. Next Peak’s founders have decades of experience leading government and corporate cyber defense efforts. We believe that understanding operational collaboration is crucial in
Stress Testing in a World of Compound Risks and Polycrises
Stress testing has become a tool of choice in banking for risk managers and regulators alike, and it is used more widely as a way to assess resilience to severely adverse events. Yet even the most creative risk manager would
The Cyber Defense Assistance: Imperative Lessons from Ukraine
| Written By Gregory Rattray, Geoff Brown, and Robert Taj Moore | Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a watershed moment. Governments, citizens, and companies faced a choice—they could support Ukraine in its fight to defend its
Multilateral Cyber Action Committee (MCAC) led by Next Peak’s Greg Rattray, Releases Joint Statement
Greg Rattray, Executive Director, and Ian Pelekis, Senior Cyber Risk Analyst at Next Peak helped form and drive the activities Multilateral Cyber Action Committee (MCAC). Recently, the MCAC brought together business and cyber advocacy organizations including the Business Executives for
CDAC Featured on “Click Here” Podcast Episode: “Rounding up a cyber posse for Ukraine”
They call themselves the Cyber Defense Assistance Collaboration (CDAC), and it is the brainchild of Greg Rattray, a former chief information security officer at JP Morgan Chase. For months, he has been helping build a kind of public-private partnership to
Explore featured insights from Next Peak's Intelligent Cyber Research
Geo Cyber Risk Index: A 2025 Review
In September 2025, Next Peak published the 2025 Geo Cyber Risk Index (GCRI) to give global organizations a strategic and customized view of the combination of state cyber risk, criminal
Intelligent Cyber Research: On Geopolitical Cyber Risk Across Industries
Most organizations now accept that geopolitical risk translates into cyber risks. Cyber incidents have ranked as the number one global business risk for multiple years, outpacing natural catastrophes, regulatory disruption,
Next Peak’s Intelligent Cyber Research offers new Geo Cyber Risk Index
Next Peak’s Intelligent Cyber Research (ICR), inspired by co-founder Greg Rattray’s vision to merge geopolitical intelligence with cyber insight, is ready to empower organizations to make informed, forward-looking decisions. On
Next Peak Launches “Intelligent Cyber Research”
For the last decade, Next Peak co-founder Greg Rattray has been developing an idea around his passion for the intersection of geopolitics and cyber. Today, as geopolitical risks are increasing