Companies can invest heavily in top-of-the-line security software and state-of the-art systems, but without the proper approach toward their IT employees, those efforts will be for naught. This article focuses on a board’s cybersecurity oversight pertaining to a company’s most important cybersecurity resource (and threat): its employees.
Given the tumultuous risk associated with cyber-attacks, boards of directors and C-suite executives must address cybersecurity not as an IT issue, but rather as an issue of governance. Boards and C-suite executives should establish a cross-organizational team that regularly convenes to discuss, coordinate and communicate cybersecurity issues and is supported by outside cybersecurity response firms and law enforcement agencies.
via Top Cybersecurity Concerns for Every Board of Directors: People — Nasdaq Governance Clearinghouse
