Cybersecurity Strategy for Executives

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In my last blog post I responded to a question — what do executives need to know about cybersecurity. Here are some strategies for executives to deal with cybersecurity more effectively. This post is part of my Cybersecurity for Executives series.

Learn the basics

It’s not as hard as you think to learn top security threats your organization faces, depending on who’s teaching it! The first step is to invest in training to learn the basics of information security. From an executive point of view, security is not about understanding network packets, bits, bytes, and assembly language to reverse engineer malware (though I have some certifications in that area and it’s very fun!) A large part of cybersecurity is understanding the macro issues that cause the most breaches and having a way to measure if you are susceptible to a similar fate — and then do something about it.