{"id":7273,"date":"2017-04-07T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T18:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/news-1064\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T18:30:27","slug":"news-1064","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/news-1064\/","title":{"rendered":"What C-level leaders need to know about cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zapt1.staticworld.net\/images\/article\/2017\/03\/cybersecurity-100715482-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Matt Hamblen| Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 10:04:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Despite the scale and potential harm from cyber-attacks, there&#8217;s wide recognition that corporate leaders, especially boards of directors, aren&#8217;t taking the necessary actions to defend their companies against such attacks. It&#8217;s not just a problem of finding the right cyber-defense tools and services, but also one of management awareness and security acumen at the highest level, namely corporate boards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our country and its businesses and government agencies of all sizes are under attack from a variety of aggressive adversaries and we are generally unprepared to manage and fend off these threats,&#8221; said Gartner analyst Avivah Litan, a longtime cybersecurity consultant to many organizations.<\/p>\n<p> Litan&#8217;s worries seem to have reached some quarters of the corporate governance community. The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) recently released a survey of more than 600 corporate board directors and professionals that found only 19% believe their boards have a high level of understanding of cybersecurity risks. That&#8217;s an improvement from 11% in a similar poll conducted a year earlier. <\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, when an attack does happen, there seems to be an excess of finger-pointing in the C-suite. IT execs disagree with their bosses over who is responsible, and say that a cyber-attack will cost double what the top-level execs believe it will. <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty of blame to go around, as it turns out. Download our free PDF, below, to learn how to communicate better with the execs about cybersecurity, and why that matters. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3188313\/security\/what-c-level-leaders-need-to-know-about-cybersecurity.html#tk.rss_security\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/category\/security\/index.rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zapt1.staticworld.net\/images\/article\/2017\/03\/cybersecurity-100715482-large.3x2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Matt Hamblen| Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 10:04:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n<article>\n<section class=\"page\">\n<p>    Despite the scale and potential harm from cyber-attacks, there&#8217;s wide recognition that corporate leaders, especially boards of directors, aren&#8217;t taking the necessary actions to defend their companies against such attacks. It&#8217;s not just a problem of finding the right cyber-defense tools and services, but also one of management awareness and security acumen at the highest level, namely corporate boards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our country and its businesses and government agencies of all sizes are under attack from a variety of aggressive adversaries and we are generally unprepared to manage and fend off these threats,&#8221; said Gartner analyst Avivah Litan, a longtime cybersecurity consultant to many organizations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"\/article\/3188313\/security\/what-c-level-leaders-need-to-know-about-cybersecurity.html#jump\">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[11062,10643],"tags":[11270,714],"class_list":["post-7273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computerworld","category-independent","tag-it-management","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}