By: Rosemary Ajayi
Nigerian-born cybersecurity expert, Ogochukwu Susan Ndibe, is shaping the future of digital protection with a breakthrough innovation now gaining national traction across the United States. Her creation, the CYBER-ALIGN™ Framework, is rapidly emerging as one of the most sophisticated, behavior-aware, and governance-driven cybersecurity tools developed by an African expert in the diaspora – earning praise from industry leaders, healthcare administrators, and compliance specialists alike.
For more than 12 years, Ogochukwu has worked across IT infrastructure, network security, data protection, and policy compliance, distinguishing herself as a thought leader in how organisations build resilience. But it is CYBER-ALIGN™ – a proprietary framework that blends cybersecurity governance, data-flow visibility, workforce behavior analytics, and resilience engineering that has cemented her reputation as a force in the industry.
A framework born from real organisational gaps
Cybersecurity tools are abundant, yet breaches continue to rise. Susan observed that while companies invest in endpoint security, monitoring tools, and firewalls, most still lack a unified structure that connects policy, human behavior, data movement, and operational readiness. CYBER-ALIGN™ was created to solve this problem with precision.
The framework consists of five strategic pillars – Govern, Visualise, Educate, Protect, and Recover – each supported by proprietary indices such as the Compliance Alignment Index (CAI), Cyber Behavior Index (CBI), Data Visibility Matrix (DVM), and Resilience Score (RS). Together, they quantify an organisation’s real-time cybersecurity posture and provide a measurable, actionable roadmap for strengthening resilience.
Susan explained her vision: “Cybersecurity is not just about firewalls and encryption, it’s about alignment. Organisations fail not because they don’t have tools, but because those tools are not connected to people, processes, and policy. CYBER-ALIGN™ makes cybersecurity measurable, understandable, and sustainable.”
Across U.S. cybersecurity circles, CYBER-ALIGN™ is being praised for doing what many tools have failed to achieve: unifying human and technical factors in a scalable, standards-compliant ecosystem. Cyber risk analysts describe the tool as “a breakthrough in resilience quantification,” while enterprise security consultants note that it introduces “a level of behavioral and governance visibility that legacy SIEM tools simply do not offer.”
In an industry projected to lose over $10 trillion to cybercrime by 2025, innovations that strengthen organisational resilience are critical. CYBER-ALIGN™ addresses some of the most pressing issues documented by CISA and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: data-flow opacity, human-factor vulnerabilities, reactive incident management, and misalignment between compliance frameworks and real operational practices.
What sets CYBER-ALIGN™ apart is its dual focus on governance and human behavior, two dimensions that national research bodies consistently cite as the root of 80% of cybersecurity incidents. By providing measurable indices, adaptive learning pathways, and real-time resilience scoring, the framework is now being referenced by consultants, auditors, and internal compliance teams across industries – from healthcare to financial services and educational institutions.
Industry analysts who reviewed CYBER-ALIGN™ describe it as “field-advancing,” “enterprise-ready,” and “a significant contribution to modern cybersecurity governance practices.” One expert noted that the framework “bridges the gap between regulatory expectations and real-world security operations in a way that is rare and urgently needed.”
Beyond CYBER-ALIGN™, Ogochukwu Susan Ndibe continues to distinguish herself as a cybersecurity innovator and educator. She has led complex IT transformations, developed compliance strategies for enterprise networks, delivered cybersecurity awareness training to hundreds of staff, and contributed to policy-level security planning across healthcare and corporate environments.
Ogochukwu said: “My goal is to help organisations see cybersecurity not as a burden, but as a culture—one that protects people, empowers teams, and strengthens trust. CYBER-ALIGN™ is my contribution to making that culture possible.”
As more organisations adopt CYBER-ALIGN™ and as cybersecurity risks escalate globally, experts believe her framework may become one of the defining contributions of this decade – particularly in industries where patient data, financial records, and public trust are on the line.
