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by Öykü Işık Published 1 September 2022 in Brain circuits • 3 min read
The unfortunate reality of today’s business environment is you will be hacked. This shouldn’t cause great fear among your executive team, but it is imperative that executives are prepared. How worried are you about cyber-attacks affecting your company? Take a moment and rank whether you agree with the following statements from one to five, with one being ‘disagree’ and five being ‘strongly agree’:
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Look at your scores. If you have anything higher than a two in reference to any of the above statements, read on, because you are making some mistakes common among many executives, and you may need to rethink your cyber-strategy.
1 – Beware of a false sense of security.
A first-class IT team well-versed in cyber security may give executives in other departments a false sense of security. We know from statistics that 85% of all cyber breaches occur because of human error. Because individuals are being targeted to get into systems, human behavior is the critical factor in protecting and preventing system breaches. Executives need to therefore ensure that everyone who has access to their systems knows what to do in the event of a breach. No matter how strong your IT team may be, they can’t control what sort of mistake an individual might make by clicking on something they shouldn’t before that first cup of coffee.
2 – Size doesn’t matter the way you may think it does.
Your company may be small, but that may make you attractive to potential hackers who are looking to use your company to reach larger partners. In the 2013 attack on Target, criminals targeted a small business, specifically a vendor who dealt with air conditioning service. They were able to steal an employee’s password through a successful phishing attack at the air conditioning company and then through the billing system get into Target’s larger network.
3 – Insurance is getting more expensive and harder to use.
As risks and expenses grow, the insurance landscape is rapidly changing. Some major insurers are no longer including ransom payments as insurable, only the cost of lost business. Furthermore, an increasing number of cyber-attacks are classified as state-sponsored, which some insurers classify as acts of war which frees them from liability.
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Video: Six cybersecurity trends for companies to get to grips with in 2022 with Öykü Işık
Professor of Digital Strategy and Cybersecurity at IMD
Öykü Işık is Professor of Digital Strategy and Cybersecurity at IMD, where she leads the Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy program. She is an expert on digital resilience and the ways in which disruptive technologies challenge our society and organizations. Named on the Thinkers50 Radar 2022 list of up-and-coming global thought leaders, she helps businesses to tackle cybersecurity, data privacy, and digital ethics challenges, and enables CEOs and other executives to understand these issues.
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