Independent Cyber Governance Advisory for CEOs, CFOs, boards, and professional services firms that need to know what is operating, what is assumed, and what can be defended.
Cyber governance failures begin when leadership believes risk is being managed, but accountability, oversight, controls, and evidence cannot be independently verified.
Who owns decisions, responsibilities, controls, and outcomes?
How are cybersecurity and data protection actually managed and overseen?
What can be independently observed, verified, and defended?
Our discovery process establishes an independent Cyber Governance Baseline™ by comparing leadership expectations with organizational, operational, and technical reality.
We align leadership expectations with cyber governance objectives, decision ownership, risk priorities, and accountability structures.
We review people, process, technology, vendors, documentation, controls, and available evidence.
We identify the gap between what leadership believes, what is occurring, and what can be defended.
Elizabeth Wu speaks to executives, boards, attorneys, privacy leaders, CFOs, and business communities on cyber governance, accountability, evidence, and executive defensibility.
The Illusion of Cyber Governance: Why Proof Matters More Than Protection examines why organizations believe they are governed, why evidence is often missing, and how leaders can move from assumption to defensibility.
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Cyber Governance & Company combines independent governance assessment with technical assurance to provide leadership with a defensible understanding of organizational cyber risk.
Author, speaker, governance auditor, and creator of the Cyber Governance Discovery™ methodology. Elizabeth brings more than 25 years of experience across IT audit, privacy, cyber governance, insurance, and executive accountability. She is a contributor to the Center for Internet Security (CIS). She is a contributor to the Center for Internet Security (CIS), advancing practical cyber governance standards for organizations nationwide.
ISO 27001 IT Lead Auditor and senior IT consultant with 35 years of experience as an IT technician and consultant. Phillip brings deep expertise in technical assurance, security operations, infrastructure validation, and control implementation.
Cyber governance failures do not recognize borders. Cyber Governance & Company supports organizations through executive governance expertise, technical validation, privacy experience, and strategic regional partnerships.
Executive cyber governance advisory across the United States and Canada.
Regional partnership capability for organizations facing cyber, privacy, and governance expectations under emerging frameworks including Chile's Ley 21.663.
Privacy, data protection, and governance perspective informed by international relationships and advisory engagement experience.
Leadership does not need another status report. Leadership needs evidence. Schedule a discovery call, request speaking information, or join the book pre-order list.