Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight, Issue 66 – Managing Cyber Threats with Confidence

It is a common theme in the media as well as in our market research: Cybersecurity is a significant business and IT risk that organizations should be working diligently to manage.  Boards of Directors are taking note and IT and business leaders should be prepared to explain how they are managing these threats.

Here is a quick synopsis of this short whitepaper:

The realities of risk management are that risks
are impossible to eliminate, resources are finite, and risk profiles are
ever-changing. Such is the case with cyber threats.  This issue of Board Perspectives: Risk
Oversight discusses why it is important to focus on protecting an
organization’s most important information assets and systems (its “crown
jewels”) by understanding the changing threat landscape and risk tolerances and
undertaking steps to prepare for the inevitable incidents.