Author: Alexander Akinjayeju

Alexander Akinjayeju is a cybersecurity executive with around 30 years' experience, including senior leadership roles in security. Since 2020 he has focused on AI-driven products and services and is currently building a risk intelligence platform for non-human identities across cloud and AI environments. He writes about cloud resilience, identity and systemic technology risk. Connect on LinkedIn → https://linkedin.com/in/alexjayeju

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Cloud Concentration Risk: Why Cloud Outages Are Now Systemic
ByAlexander Akinjayeju September 29, 2026November 4, 2026

Cloud convergence has transformed the internet from a highly decentralised network into an ecosystem increasingly dominated by a handful of hyperscale providers. While this shift has enabled unprecedented scalability and innovation, it has also introduced systemic risks with far-reaching implications for critical infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and digital resilience. This article explores how cloud concentration is reshaping internet resilience and why modern outages are increasingly architecture failures rather than infrastructure failures.

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Dear Cyber Security Risk Leader
ByAlexander Akinjayeju September 16, 2020October 14, 2026

The CISO has little or no control over organisation’s culture and will do well to assess whether it supports him/her in delivering what the organisation has asked for, or what they need. Is he/she prepared to give them what they have asked for or what they need. The organisation may actually not know what they need and may just want him/her to be a tick in the box.

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Data Security and Governance: Better Together
ByAlexander Akinjayeju August 11, 2020October 14, 2026

This article was originally published on July 17, 2020 on http://www.nicolaaskham.com Cyber security is a term often interchangeably used instead of Information Security or other scope specific terms such as Data Security, IT Security or Digital Security etc. The keyword here is “Security” of information in whatever format or scope it is presented be it…

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Does your Cyber Security Rigour match the Rigour and motivation of a Hacker?
ByAlexander Akinjayeju August 11, 2020October 14, 2026

This article was originally published on Linkedin on August 31, 2016 @ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/does-your-cyber-security-rigour-match-motivation-alexander/ This question is becoming more relevant each passing day following the wave of high profile cyber attacks and data breaches reported in the media in recent times. As we all know for every reported breach there are hundreds if not thousands of unreported…

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Office 365 Does not Eliminate SaaS Application Risks
ByAlexander Akinjayeju August 11, 2020October 14, 2026

This article was originally published on Linkedin on August 22, 2016 @ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/office-365-does-eliminate-saas-application-risks-alexander/ There appear to be some misinformation or misconception out there about what office 365 (O365) is and what it isn’t. O365 is a cloud based subscription of Microsoft office suite of productivity tools as opposed to desktop or locally installed versions. Essentially it…

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Security – A Digital Transformation Enabler
ByAlexander Akinjayeju August 11, 2020October 14, 2026

This presentation was first published on Linkedin on August 13, 2015 @ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/security-digital-transformation-enabler-alexander/. Event: Whitehall Media Identity Management conference. The promises of the digital new world is inextricably locked with cloud computing technologies. Cloud computing technology is central to the converging interconnecting forces of collaboration, mobility, BYOD, IoT and social enterprise. The information/data security needs and…

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Why Information Security May be Constraining Business
ByAlexander Akinjayeju August 10, 2020October 14, 2026

This article was originally published on Linkedin on August 5, 2015 @ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-information-security-may-constraining-business-alexander/ The Information security function is first and foremost an information management discipline. Its main focus as we all aware is around the protection of information with particular emphasis on its confidentiality, integrity and availability. This is all well and good provided there is…

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Whitehall Media Conference – London 2015
ByAlexander Akinjayeju August 9, 2020October 14, 2026

This presentation was at the Whitehall Media conference in London in June 2015.

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Author: Alexander Akinjayeju

Dear Cyber Security Risk Leader

Data Security and Governance: Better Together

Does your Cyber Security Rigour match the Rigour and motivation of a Hacker?

Office 365 Does not Eliminate SaaS Application Risks

Security – A Digital Transformation Enabler

Why Information Security May be Constraining Business

Whitehall Media Conference – London 2015

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