On July 30, 2014, Executive Director Andrew Serwin and Advisory Board Member Ron Plesco, along with Shaygan Kheradpir, Chief Executive Officer, Juniper Networks, presented at the Corporate Directors Forum on a panel entitled “Secrets of the Hacker Underground: What Directors NEED to Know about Cybercrime.” The panel covered a number of topics, including: what the emerging threats are; how companies, and Boards, can begin to assess and react to these emerging issues; as well as best practice recommendations.
Serwin and Plesco also presented two white papers that addressed these issues, and offered some bench marking data for companies. These materials, as well as other materials, can be found in the link. According to Serwin, “Cybercrime is an issue that every company faces in some form. How companies protect themselves must be assessed in connection with the risks the company faces, and Boards are under ever-increasing pressure to ensure that companies have done what they need to do to address these issues, whether that is the most appropriate mechanism for oversight, or not.”
For more information about the Lares Institute’s work on cybersecurity and senior business leaders, please review the materials regarding Information Superiority, linked here.