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Uplifting Cyber Resilience while adjusting to the “New Normal”
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way businesses around the world operate, and with the majority of employees working from home for the foreseeable future, cyber risks to businesses have increased significantly. As cyber offensive actors seek to exploit the widening attack surface created by the new normal of remote work, businesses must deploy new cyber risk management strategies to protect their operations. At Next Peak our Cyber Defender Network have been out the door helping companies meet the new challenges of remote work, and as we have started to push our thoughts to clients we wanted to share some ideas on how companies can adapt their cyber risk management strategies to protect business operations. Cyber Risks Amplified: growing attack
Leveraging Operational Collaboration to Defend US Cyberspace
Last Friday Next Peak Co-Founder Greg Rattray led an Evil Minds Workshop that brought together technology experts from the private sector, government, and academia to discuss the most likely technological trends that will shape a major cyber- attack in the year 2025. This will be the first in a series of posts exploring scenarios from the workshop, where we imagine what the next major cyber-attack will look like, the likely technological drivers, and potential areas for operational collaboration. Greg serves as the current Executive Director of the New York Cyber Task Force, which is hosted by Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. This second iteration of the Task Force was installed at the beginning of 2020, and it
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
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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