Picture this: It’s the evening before a big holiday. Family and friends descend upon your home to enjoy a relaxing meal and time away from the office. But not everyone is taking a break. In the middle of the night, the phone rings. There’s an emergency at work—a network breach. “I’ve received calls at the…
Here’s an increasingly common scenario: You’re a business or IT leader, and you learn—quite possibly from sources outside your company—that cyberattackers have compromised your organization’s systems. You don’t know yet how serious a breach you’re facing, but it’s clearly time to activate your crisis-communication plan. Except that you don’t have a plan. Or you have…
It’s no secret that finding, hiring, and retaining top cybersecurity talent has always been challenging. But today’s cyberthreats are becoming both more numerous and more sophisticated, making those tasks tougher than ever before. The complexity of information-security environments is escalating in response to the fast-evolving cyberthreat landscape—and the ramifications are widespread: recent breaches at Target…
Sony Pictures Entertainment, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Bangladesh Bank, the State of Texas, Ashley Madison, Target: these are a few of the organizations where top or senior-level executives have resigned or been fired in the wake of fallout from major cybersecurity breaches. So should executives everywhere worry about their careers in light of…