Executive Cybersecurity & Risk Advisor
Dr. Yawo O. Kondo, DIT
Advisor
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Author
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Professor
Helping organizations understand cyber risk, strengthen security strategy, achieve compliance, and build sustainable cyber resilience.
DIT
CISM
CCSK
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Cybersecurity
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Risk
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GRC
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Cloud
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Federal Compliance
What I do
Four ways I work
Advisory, teaching, writing and speaking reinforce one another — the research shapes the advice, and the advice keeps the research honest.
Advise
Executive and board-level guidance on cyber risk, security strategy, compliance and resilience.
Advisory
Teach
University teaching and curriculum development in cybersecurity and information technology.
Teaching
Write
Books and research on cybersecurity strategy, federal compliance, Zero Trust and emerging risk.
Books
Speak
Keynotes, executive briefings, panels and university lectures on cybersecurity and risk.
Speaking
Impact by the Numbers
10+
Years
Experience
Experience
7+
Students
Trained
Trained
8+
Organizations
Served
Served
5+
Publications
5
Books
Published
Published
8+
Courses
Developed
Developed
Capability domains
Where the expertise sits
Grouped by domain rather than tool proficiency — what I can take responsibility for, not what software I have opened.
Cybersecurity Leadership
Security StrategyExecutive AdvisoryvCISO
Cyber Risk ManagementBoard ReportingProgramme Design
GRC & Compliance
FISMARMF & DoD RMFFedRAMPNIST CSF
ISO 27001HIPAAPCI DSSGDPR
Security Engineering
Zero Trust ArchitectureCloud SecurityVulnerability Management
Identity & AccessIncident ReadinessSecurity Architecture
Strategic Domains
Health InformaticsNonprofit SecurityDigital Trust
Cyber ResilienceEmerging Technology RiskGovernance
Books
The portfolio
Each title maps to a corresponding advisory service — the writing and the consulting draw on the same body of work.
Research & publications
The research agenda
Cybersecurity at the intersection of nonprofits, governance, development and technology — with particular attention to African cybercrime, e‑governance, critical infrastructure and geopolitics.
Cybersecurity & Nonprofits
Governance
Development
African Cybercrime
E‑Governance
Critical Infrastructure
Geopolitics
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Speaking
Keynotes & executive briefings
Conferences, executive forums, universities and professional events — with sessions shaped to the room rather than delivered off the shelf.
Cyber Risk for Executives
Zero Trust in Practice
Federal Compliance
Cyber Resilience
AI & Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Governance
Cybersecurity for Nonprofits
Emerging Technology Risk
Academic leadership
Teaching the next generation
Adjunct professor at Washington Adventist University, and founder of Thoth Info‑Tech Academy — a professional academy taking people with no prior experience into cybersecurity careers. Practitioners make better teachers when they are still practising, and teaching keeps the practice sharp.
Adjunct Professor
Washington Adventist University — cybersecurity and information technology.
Curriculum Development
Designing cybersecurity programmes that reflect how the work is actually done.
Founder, Thoth Academy
Five programmes, six specialization tracks and a Kids Academy — from zero experience to job-ready.
Workforce Development
Building cybersecurity talent pipelines through training and mentorship.
Lausey Advisory Firm
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The firm behind the advisory
Lausey Advisory Firm is the commercial cybersecurity advisory and risk management firm I founded. Where an engagement calls for a delivery organization — assessments, implementation, GRC programmes, vulnerability management or sustained capability building — that work is carried out through Lausey.
Executive Cybersecurity Guidance
Measurable Risk Reduction
Sustainable Capability
Let's discuss your cybersecurity challenge
Advisory, speaking, teaching, research collaboration or media — tell me what you have in mind and I'll respond personally.