4. Risk Management
Over the past 2-3 years, we’ve seen cybercriminals increasingly collaborating, generating a degree of technical competency that caught many large organizations unaware. CEOs must prepare their companies for the unpredictable so they have the resilience to withstand unforeseen, high-impact events. Coupled with these trends, an under-investment in security departments can combine to cause the perfect threat storm. Organizations that identify what they rely on most will be well placed to quantify the business case to invest in resilience.
5. Supply Chain
CEOs should be concerned about how open their supply chains are to various risk factors and should direct their IT and operations leaders to close the most vulnerable spots in their supply chains now. The unfortunate reality of today’s complex global marketplace is that not every security compromise can be prevented beforehand. Being proactive now also means you and your suppliers will be better able to react quickly and intelligently when something does happen.
6. Shifting From Employee Awareness to Changing Behavior
Today’s CEOs often demand return on investment forecasts even for something as simple as training employees to better protect the technology they’re given and to keep company information private. While many organizations have compliance activities which fall under the general heading of ‘security awareness’, the real commercial driver should be risk, and how the proper behaviors can reduce that risk. Moving away from simple awareness toward behavior change that can be measured will help you better direct your CIO and answer board member questions.
ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT IS A FULL-TIME JOB
The stakes are higher than ever before. High-level corporate secrets and critical infrastructures are constantly under attack. CEOs must stay on top of important trends that have emerged or shifted in the past year, as well as those coming in the future.
Organizations of all sizes are operating in a progressively cyber-enabled world and traditional risk management isn’t agile enough to deal with the risks from activity in cyberspace. Enterprise risk management must be extended to create risk resilience, built on a foundation of preparedness that evaluates the threat vectors from a position of business acceptability and risk profiling.
CEOs must take the lead in these areas to ensure their organizations are prepared to deal with ever-emerging challenges.
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