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Martin Redmond, CEO of Analytic Risk Intelligence Management
Assessing and addressing risk
is essential to the role of a CISO
as well as being a core factor in
minimising disruption to business
operations. Martin Redmond
assists CIOs and CISOs with
implementing relative controls
outlined in their frameworks,
and he is currently doing this for
John Deere Financial.
CULTIVATING A
SUCCESSFUL RISK
MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
FOR SECURE OPERATIONS
artin Redmond is CEO of
M
Analytic Risk Intelligence
Management and is
currently working with John
Deere Financial in the role of CIO/CISO
on a consultancy basis.
Redmond helps CIOs and CISOs
in various organisations apply their
programmes and implement the controls
that are outlined in their particular
frameworks. He is currently supporting the
executive team at John Deere Financial
to implement its organisation-wide
transformation effort with Scrum-at-Scale.
The effort is transforming the company’s
software development life cycle to
become more agile and to implement the
Scrum-at-Scale approaches across the
entire IT infrastructure.
Scrum-at-Scale is a framework in
which a network of teams operating
consistently with the Scrum Guide can
address complex adaptive problems,
while creatively delivering products of
the highest possible value.
Redmond discusses how to prioritise
risk and how companies are operating
securely in the current working
environment, in more detail.
What prompted your interest in
a career in cybersecurity?
Having a Masters in electrical
engineering led to systems engineering
and a big part of systems engineering
is security. At the time, security was not
a clearly defined role – you couldn’t
measure it and it was not clearly defined
in system design principles. Thus,
contractual Statements of Work were
missing security requirements, service
level agreements and operational level
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