Tagged: cybersecurity compliance

The Evolving Partnership: Compliance and Cybersecurity (Part I of IV)

If you ask corporate board members and senior executives to list their number one risk (other than financial operations), the answer in today’s risk environment is clear – cybersecurity and data privacy.  The rapid elevation of this risk is reflected in weekly headlines announcing ransomware, cyber-attacks and data breaches.  In NAVEX’s recent State of Compliance Survey, one in three respondents indicated their company had experienced...

Episode 47 — Cybersecurity Threats and Compliance

Companies face evolving and significant cyber risks. The FBI estimates that ransomware will generate at least $1 billion for criminals.  Businesses stand to lose at least $400 billion each year from hacks.  The cyber defense, forensics and insurance industry will be worth nearly $200 billion by the end of this decade.  Each year there is an average of 1.5 million cyber attacks, or approximately 4000 per day....

The Obvious Partnership — Compliance and Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity compliance, like the compliance profession, is rapidly growing. The forces pushing cyber compliance are two-fold: the ever-increasing and changing nature of cyber threats and harms, and the logical application of compliance strategies. Compliance has to work closely with in-house corporate information technology. To the extent a company outsources information technology to a cloud provider, compliance will serve an even more important function in coordinating...