Is your company feeling pressured by the near daily barrage of news about the latest cyberbreach or other compromising data hack? Gone are the days when only the IT department was tasked with worrying about and managing cyber risks. Senior management can no longer shrug their shoulders when IT employees speak in a technical language they cannot follow, and hope that appropriate security measures are in place.
The good news is that more companies are making cybersecurity a top priority companywide. My firm recently conducted a survey of in-house counsel which showed that executives and boards are increasingly engaged in cybersecurity preparedness and risk mitigation. The bad news is that many find the actual task of getting prepared daunting.
