CEO Cybersecurity To-Do List: Sadin on Digital

<p>The Big Themes:</p><ul><li><strong>Wake-up call for boards and C-Suites:</strong> What do we hear from victims? “We didn’t think we’d be a target.”</li><li><strong>In our emerging acceleration economy:</strong> Firms can’t afford the lost time, the lost revenue/added costs, the hit to reputation a successful attack causes.</li><li><strong>Firms must do six things well:</strong> Robust prevention, quick detection, defense in depth, keeping secrets secret, effective repair/restoration, and not keeping your eggs in one basket.</li><li><strong>Manage systemic risk, not just cybersecurity:</strong> If someone can waltz in and unplug the firewall, are you secure?</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Big Quotes:</p><p>“There's a John Chambers quote that I've used before. There are two kinds of companies: those that have been hacked, and those they don't know that they've been hacked.”</p><p> </p><p>“And if you're an executive and you had trouble understanding that, listen again, because nothing I said is very technical.”</p><p> </p><p>“If your systems are cruddy and 15 years old and not connected, you might be in a full-time hygiene mode.”</p><p> </p><p>This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.</p><p> </p>