The Glass Pyramid Cracks

In 2025, thieves stole €88 million in Crown Jewels from the Louvre in under eight minutes, not by defeating the security system, but by exploiting the organization's culture. This white paper, "The Glass Pyramid Cracks," reveals that the true failure wasn't the breached window—which had been identified as a critical vulnerability in 2019—but the Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM) collapse that allowed that vulnerability to persist for six years. By characterizing assets as "priceless" while allocating a "restricted" security budget, leadership created a fatal misalignment where a €100 million collection was defended with resources appropriate for a gift shop .

Our analysis dissects the specific governance failures that turned a preventable risk into a total loss, including the "Self-Insurance Trap" where the museum retained 100% of the financial risk without implementing the necessary mitigation to back it up . We expose how a "Silence Culture" filtered out warnings of "worrying levels of obsolescence," moving the organization from risk management to the "normalization of negligence". Download the full case study to learn how to apply the ESRM framework to identify these toxic patterns in your own enterprise before your "accepted risks" become a headline event.