Cyber-security must be a C-suite priority. Issue 2 (February 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Boone, Adam
• Is Part Of: Computer fraud & security. Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 13
• Page End: 15
• Publication Date: 2017-02
• Subjects: Computer crimes -- Periodicals; Computers -- Access control -- Periodicals; 364.168
• DOI: 10.1016/S1361-3723(17)30015-5
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1361-3723

Abstract

Abstract : Digital technology has fundamentally changed business practice over the past decade. Cloud-based applications dominate, workers routinely access corporate information remotely via smartphones and access to the corporate network increasingly includes supply chain members, contractors and part time workers. Yet cyber-security has failed to keep up – and some of the responsibility has to lie with the C-suite. Digital technology has fundamentally changed business over the past decade. Yet cyber-security has failed to keep up – and some of the responsibility has to lie with the C-suite. By failing to embrace security expertise and innovation up front, businesses are incurring far too much risk. It is time to address the fragmented, outdated, reactive attitudes to cyber-security that still dominate and make cyber-security a priority for every C-suite, says Adam Boone of Certes Networks.