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CISOs, CIOs, and other technology leaders are well-served with a strong digital- and cyber-savvy corporate board, as are shareholders and other corporate stakeholders. In a world increasingly dependent on complex digital systems for growth and resiliency, ensuring the boardroom is a critical digital and cyber-control point is a necessary and overdue step.
Why do technology projects succeed? The most vital ingredient is organizational and personal courage.
The increases of women in senior or executive roles over the past two decades have been less than inspiring. It would seem, therefore, that although leadership literature has played a significant role in raising the profile of women in management, much needs to happen in actual board rooms and management suites in order to advance the careers of women in leadership positions.
Abhijit Dasgupta, an accomplished security risk leader with extensive experience in building and leading security risk and digital governance practices globally, comments on the changing threat landscape and highlights the enhanced risk from both new remote work practices across businesses as a result of COVID as well as from cryptocurrencies. He suggests strategies such as zero trust, perimeter-less, and multi-cloud.
James Motherway, a senior threat hunt analyst, offers practical insights on proactive defense with threat hunting and deception. He believes that, as cyberattacks become bolder and more widespread, reactive security is not enough. Even worse, many organizations suffer from detection blind spots or collect lots of data that does not help. Motherway believes security teams have no choice but to invest in proactive capabilities to protect their operations.
The authors describe how systemic risk should be factored in as a board priority and how to enhance preparedness. They argue that in terms of bolstering cybersecurity, the corporate boardroom is “too frequently a nonexistent or underperforming control point for many organizations.” Zukis and Barsky go on to discuss the vulnerability of today’s highly connected and complex systems to systemic risks that can cause damage to the entire system. Finally, their article illustrates how boardroom mechanisms for governing digital and cyber risk can benefit enterprises.
In this issue of CBTJ, we address the question, “Why are cyberattacks on the rise, and what strategies/practices can organizations adopt to address and minimize the chance of these attacks?” Our five articles were carefully selected to highlight the strategies that enterprises can follow to enhance their security posture.
A societal attitude that home and childcare duties should be carried out by women is widespread in many countries. During the COVID-19 global pandemic, more women than men lost their jobs or felt they had to stop work. But the IT sector initiated, and needs to continue with, COVID-19-induced societal transformation toward remote work.