Marco Gercke focuses on what happens when cyber risk stops being theoretical and becomes an immediate leadership problem with legal, operational, and reputational consequences. Best known as the founder and Director of the Cybercrime Research Institute, he has spent more than two decades analysing how cybercrime, digital dependency, and emerging technologies expose weaknesses not just in systems, but in organisational judgement.

His work shifts attention away from technical controls toward decision quality: how organisations prepare for incidents, how authority is exercised under pressure, and how governance functions when information is incomplete and time is scarce.

A defining element of his approach is the use of live cyber incident simulations, placing executive teams inside realistic attack scenarios to surface decision gaps, coordination failures, and hidden assumptions before real crises force those weaknesses into the open.