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✍️ in this week's newsletter:

1. 🇺🇸 Stargate: A revolution to come, but at what price?

2. ❌ Misconception: “Chief Financial Officers don’t need to care about cybersecurity“

3. 🪜 My DORA Implementation Framework

4. 📈 Global Cyberattacks Surge by 44% in One Year

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🇺🇸 Stargate: A revolution to come, but at what price?

Hollywood has often anticipated the excesses of uncontrolled artificial intelligence, but with Stargate, reality may well surpass fiction.

The choice of the Stargate name could be purely incidental. Or not. In addition to the movie and the series, the term evokes a CIA project in the 1970s, dedicated to parapsychological research and and more specifically “distance vision”.

Today, the US Stargate, with its $500 billion investment, aims to transform AI into a global strategic lever. But behind this ambition lie far more complex issues.

Yes: Stargate is a demonstration of strength. With giants like OpenAI and SoftBank at the forefront, this plan could propel the US to the pinnacle of AI innovation, while creating unprecedented infrastructure.

But: here's the problem. Stargate isn't just a technology initiative. It's a potential tool for mass surveillance and intelligence.

Imagine having access not only to Google searches, but also to conversations held on tools like ChatGPT, used daily by millions of people around the world. These queries, often expressed unfiltered, constitute a veritable mine of information: preferences, fears, professional or personal projects...

In the past, surveillance required complex operations: placing a software or physical bug on a device. Or injecting spyware into a mobile (Pegasus). With the massive integration of generative AI, intercepting queries in a broad model language (LLM) could become the Holy Grail of intelligence operations. Every interaction is an open door to users' intentions (and every poorly protected system remains exploitable).

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❌ “Chief Financial Officers don’t need to care about cybersecurity”

Big Thing: Think cybersecurity is IT’s job? CFOs making this mistake are losing millions.

Yes: IT security requires specialized skills. Engineers in security operations centers (SOC) or incident responders, architects, devsecops, GRC analysts, OSINT analysts… to name a few. The US NIST references 52 job roles split in 7 workforce categories and 33 specialty areas. True these guys and gals work often on technical issues, and remediate them, but also on business aspects. More often that recognized, securing an IT system or its business may be achieved cheaper by reengineering the business process itself.

So: here’s the problem: Cybersecurity isn’t just an IT issue; it’s a not only a business priority for CEOs, its a strategic financial priority. CFOs who ignore this put their companies at serious risk.

Here’s why CFOs must lead the charge in cybersecurity: