Time for Senior Managers to Get Serious About Cybersecurity

If there is a silver lining to the recent rash of high-profile security breaches, it may be this: Senior executives and boards can no longer just pass ownership of data security to the CIO and hope it will go away. The consequences are too severe–and too public–for them to ignore.

Simply throwing more money at the problem isn’t likely to fix it. Many billions are invested every year in cybersecurity, and still hardly a week goes by without news of a major breach.

By Syed Ali and Vishy Padmanabhan

Full Story: http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/03/06/time-for-senior-managers-to-get-serious-about-cybersecurity/

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