Boards of directors are being told that cybersecurity is now central to business resilience and growth, and that they must engage more directly in the way their organizations manage risk. A new report from Google Cloud’s Office of the CISO lays out three areas where board oversight is becoming especially important: ransomware, cyber-enabled fraud, and the intersection of innovation and cybersecurity. Ransomware is shifting to identity and help desks The report describes how ransomware attacks … More → The post Boards are being told to rethink their role in cybersecurity appeared first on Help Net Security.

  • smeg@infosec.pub
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    9 days ago

    Find me a board whose access to corporate systems doesn’t constitute a massive hole in good security practices.

  • Jiggs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Just pay the professionals to do their work and not just for a month or two after major incident.

    Last thing we might need in scrutinized security environment is some hyped director vibing their revolutionary idea. My money is on their solution being AI, again.

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    9 days ago

    It doesn’t sound like the protection of personal information about users is in that top three list.