In this short conversation with WSJ Pro Cybersecurity  (hosted by Jackie Hunter ), John Childress shares a leadership lens on cyber security: why the real exposure is often human behaviour under pressure , and why cyber outcomes improve when leaders treat culture as a managed risk , not a slogan. Rather than staying in the weeds of tools and training, John focuses on the conditions  that shape everyday decisions — priorities, incentives, decision rules, and accountability — a

Most organisations treat culture as something “soft”—until something hard happens: a failed transformation, a safety incident, a conduct breach, or a cyber event that should have been preventable. My view is simple: culture impacts business results, positively or negatively. There is no neutral culture. It either enables your strategic objectives—or quietly blocks them. And when strategy changes, culture has to change with it. An old culture that’s misaligned with a new strat