Most organizations recognize the importance of keeping their executive staff healthy and safe to protect the business from exposure and risk. However, many limit their understanding of the physical world.
Most organizations recognize the importance of keeping their executive staff healthy and safe to protect the business from exposure and risk. However, many limit their understanding of the physical world, providing healthcare and personal security as the company's two standard services.
Those that have matured to a point where they also look at this from a cyber perspective — providing cybersecurity protections for their executives while at home, on personal time — may not realize that they are blurring the lines between individual responsibility and corporate liability.
In this episode, we explore the role the organization should — and shouldn't — play when it comes to protecting their executive team from cyber threats and attacks, which could have a catastrophic impact on the business of the cybercriminals succeed in their endeavors.
The answer to this challenge isn't as easy as removing the lines altogether or drawing a hard line and then setting controls, responsibility, and liability on one side. This said, the answer doesn't have to be hard either — it just requires a clear understanding of the problem and helping the organization achieve its risk management objectives while relieving them of the responsibility — and the liability.
At this point is not a matter of if, but how.
"I think many executives get it, the question just becomes, is there risk lense somehow minimizing it because they don't fully comprehend the implications? And if that's the case, then I think it's incumbent upon the CISO to give them the scenarios and the data."—Malcolm Harkins
"I think that last point is critical, absolutely critical. You want this solved, but you don't want the company employees directly solving it for the executive team."—Chris Pierson
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Guest(s)
Malcolm Harkins, Chief Security and Trust Officer, Cymatic (@ProtectToEnable on Twitter)
Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder & CEO at BlackCloak (@DrChrisPierson on Twitter)
Resources
Learn more about BlackCloak and their offering: https://itspm.ag/itspbcweb
Download and read the complete 2020 edition of The State of Personal Cybersecurity and Privacy report by visiting https://itspm.ag/34jTqvo
Catch the full 3-part series by visiting https://itspmagazine.com/their-stories/how-and-where-you-draw-the-lines-of-protection-matters-a-blackcloak-story
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