Corporate boards are better at cybersecurity but still need improvement | Security Magazine

This year, Gartner – the world’s leading IT research company – came out with a prediction that upon inspection says a lot about how the highest level of corporate management views cybersecurity risk. It wasn’t that this has become the second-highest source of risk for the enterprise, and could become the riskiest of all. This sentiment already abounds. Rather, it was that a Gartner survey discovered that 40% of American boards of directors will have a dedicated cybersecurity committee overseen by a qualified board member by 2025.

The number today is less than 10%. So yes, this is progress.

But it really isn’t particularly impressive, and that is the real point….

Source: Corporate boards are better at cybersecurity but still need improvement | 2021-05-06 | Security Magazine