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2026-10-01

Cybersecurity — The Domain That Keeps Every CIO Up at Night

Global security spending will reach $244.2 billion in 2026. The average breach still costs $4.44 million and takes 241 days to find and contain. And the average CISO now lasts 18 to 26 months in the seat. Phase 4 of the Enterprise IT Blueprint opens with the domain that touches every other one — why it's structurally harder than the categories before it, and the five posts that map it.

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2026-09-30

What Is the Enterprise IT Blueprint? The Idea, the Why, and Where It Actually Stands

A number of people who've been following along through GPMF 2026 this week asked me the same question: what is this series you keep referencing? This is the answer — what the Enterprise IT Blueprint actually is, why I'm writing it, how it's built, and an honest look at how far it's actually gotten.

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2026-09-24

Zero Trust Architecture — Why 'Trust But Verify' Finally Died

By 2026, 60% of large enterprises will have implemented a measurable Zero Trust programme, up from under 10% in 2023 — yet fewer than 10% have reached an advanced maturity level. This post opens the Security & Risk Management phase of the Blueprint series: what Zero Trust actually replaces, why the old perimeter-based model quietly stopped working, the core architectural pillars, and why most enterprise Zero Trust programmes stall well short of the maturity that actually changes breach outcomes.

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