In the Leadership and Communications section for this week, A Chief Executive Officer's Guide to Cybersecurity, Zoom Settlement: An $85M Business Case for Security Investment, CISOs: Do you know what's in your company’s products?, and more!
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Matt Alderman
- A Chief Executive Officer’s Guide to CybersecurityThe CEO should make sure a risk management committee is constituted at the board level where IT and information security threats, risks, and mitigation plans can be discussed.
- Zoom Settlement: An $85M Business Case for Security InvestmentRansomware isn’t the only way lax security can cost a business eight figures in damage. Zoom just lost an $85 million class-action lawsuit this week for its cybersecurity missteps, proving that even the most essential and relied-upon brands can be tripped up by inadequate security. More importantly, Zoom’s journey is an object lesson showing that cybersecurity matters to the bottom line.
- Amazon GDPR fine signals expansion of regulatory focusAmazon's $887 million GDPR fine likely stems from consumer consent and may indicate the EU is moving beyond data breaches and zeroing in on data practices.
- CISOs: Do you know what’s in your company’s products?CISOs need to take a more direct role in the operations side of the business to help build security in by design. When product design takes place, and third-party firmware or software is identified to be a part of the product, who conducts the security review? The vendor, the CISO’s team or operations? All of the above.
- Organizations Still Struggle to Hire & Retain Infosec Employees: ReportIs the cybersecurity skills shortage overstated? No, according to a recent survey of Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) members. The majority of respondents report the skills shortage is a significant problem that is hurting organizations. ISSA, along with industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), surveyed 489 cybersecurity professionals and found 57% of organizations have been affected by the skills shortage. Most (95% of) respondents think the cybersecurity skills shortage and its associated effects have not improved over the past few years, and 44% say the problem has gotten worse. Only 5% say the shortage has improved.
- Improving Cybersecurity as a TeamUsing trusted sources, such as the CIS Controls and CIS Benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security, can help get your team on board with assessing: - the current state of your organization's cybersecurity - how you stack up with other frameworks you may need to comply with - how to monitor everything over time
