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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
Attack Surface Management through Data Discipline
The shift to remote work forced by the pandemic has accelerated on-going technological changes. The result: a surge in endpoint devices, operating systems and data streams for most organizations. Attack surfaces have expanded rapidly. An ever-growing number of threat actors
The Increasing Threat from Inside: A Proactive and Targeted Approach to Managing Insider Risk
Extracts from a report co-authored by Next Peak co-founder Jim Cummings in his capacity as Senior Advisor at Oliver Wyman. Co-authors: Paul Mee, Rico Brandenburg and Matthew Gruber. This report was first published on oliverwyman.com in March 2019, please click
Introducing Next Peak’s Cyber Defender Network
At Next Peak we take our clients’ cyber defense very seriously. Our founders Greg Rattray and James Cummings have decades of corporate and national security cyber experience, and they have built an elite network of highly qualified Cyber Defenders to
Targeted Attacks: Defending Against an Evolving Threat
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have issued multiple alerts warning of increased cyber attacks on medical research and other organizations that have not traditionally been targeted by advanced threat actors. While targeted attacks are not new, we are
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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