Managing cash flow, planning the financial outlay, keeping the balance sheet in order, and ensuring all financial compliances are met are some of the core responsibilities of a CFO. The CFO is also responsible for identifying opportunities to reduce operating costs without sacrificing the quality of the products and services offered by the company.
In some respects, cybersecurity is not that different than protecting your building against fire or flood. For instance, if you choose to construct a building on a floodplain and take no precautions while building, you’re responsible for the damage caused when you get inevitably flooded. Likewise, if you are an apartment owner and neglect to install smoke alarms and sprinklers in the complex, you will not be able to rent the space because it will be deemed unsafe.
In previous posts, I’ve explained how cybercrime is big business (link to post # 1), and the criminals behind the illegal activity run sophisticated online companies. Today, let’s begin talking about how to defend your company against them. We’ll start with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the de facto data security and privacy enforcement authority in the United States.
In recent weeks I’ve been talking about the cost to business of cyber theft and the Millennial Mobster. Today’s reality is savvy international businesses make up the majority of cybercriminals. This blog post is the final week of background information before we jump into the practical side of managing your cyber risk in this series called The Anatomy of a Hack.
In Part 1 I highlighted the size and pace of growth in cyber crime and introduced you to the Millennial Mobster. We are in The Internet Age of Criminals. I explained that the typical hacker is not who our media portrays in films and on television. In fact, these global gangsters and gangs responsible for the massive crimes committed online each year, run highly organized, extremely sophisticated organizations that are sometimes backed by their own foreign government.
