AXIS 35 Views

We can never claim to fully know the cyber world, but we do believe that it can be better understood. Understanding needs to come from a diverse range of thinking and draw on ideas from wide schools of thought; in a complex world, diversity of thought trumps single models every time. The cyber environment is not a linear one and thus can be much better understood when different parts of the picture come together to form one wider illustration. We need to combine knowledge from several fields and use it to improve our understanding – combinative thinking.

It is such combinative thinking that our inspirational colleague John Donald has brought together here. Taking his own inspiration from the master print maker Katsushika Hokusai, who himself tried to explain the changing nature of his own world by producing 36 different views of the same object, we have tried to bring together the 35 views that we see as we traverse around the cyber risk environment. This journey is never over but I hope it gives food for thought and helps explain away at least some of the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.