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Hybrid Threats and Critical Infrastructure: Who Owns the Decision?
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, Mind The Gap Advisory In August, an unidentified object was spotted near Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany. Flight operations stopped. Aircraft were diverted. Investigators found a drone near the runway. It was carrying explosives and a...
AI Cybersecurity: Why “Human in the Loop” Is Not Enough
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, Mind The Gap Advisory An AI security system can find a vulnerability, confirm it's exploitable, and recommend a fix in under a second. That creates an obvious advantage for defenders. It also creates a governance problem. Once a system can...
What Berlin’s Ransomware Attack Reveals About Decision Authority
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, Mind The Gap Advisory In August, Berlin discovered a cyber incident affecting parts of its state network. Two Senate administrations were isolated. A crisis team was established. Systems were investigated, then reconnected. That could have...
Third-Party Cyber Risk Governance: What the Water Utility Attacks Reveal | Mind The Gap Advisory
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, Mind The Gap Advisory The FBI's July warning about the water-sector attacks included a detail most coverage skipped past. Across several victims, investigators found similarities in network setups provided by third parties. Not one bad...
Manual Override Cybersecurity: What New Jersey’s Water Utilities Got Right | Mind The Gap Advisory
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, Mind The Gap Advisory Two water utilities got hacked in New Jersey this August. Nobody's water stopped running. The story mostly ends there in the headlines. It shouldn't end there for the people running critical infrastructure. Officials...
Critical Infrastructure Decision Authority: The Minnesota Water Attack | Mind The Gap Advisory
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, Mind The Gap Advisory The hack was on the screen for less than an hour. The decision problem it exposed is still there. On July 27, 2026, a public works operator in Braham, Minnesota noticed the town's water tower level falling. The well...
Building Decision Continuity: The Four Things That Actually Close the Governance Gap
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, Mind The Gap Advisory Identifying the problem is not the same as fixing it. Most organizations already know where their governance gaps are. The escalation path that dead-ends at one person. The delegated authority that was assumed...
You Are the Continuity Plan: Why That Is a Governance Failure Not a Personal One
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, Mind The Gap Advisory There is one person who knows the truth about your governance problem. It is not your CISO. It is not your General Counsel. It is not your Chief Risk Officer. It is your spouse. Your partner. Your family. Would...
You Disappear Tomorrow: What the First 24 Hours Reveals About Your Governance Structure
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, Mind The Gap Advisory Run this thought experiment with me. You disappear tomorrow. Completely unavailable for 24 hours. No phone, no email, no Slack. No one can reach you and you cannot reach anyone. What breaks first? Not as a...
The Two Maps: Why Your Official Authority Structure and Your Actual One Are Not the Same
By Ann Marie van den Hurk, Mind The Gap Advisory Every organization has two org charts. The one on paper. And the one that actually runs things. Most executives believe they are the same document. They are not. And the gap between them is not theoretical — it...