A Leader's Guide to Cybersecurity

Introduction

Digital Stewardship

Over the past decade, as the world has become more digital, companies, governments, and organizations have spent billions of dollars on cybersecurity. Yet, as their investments have grown, the financial consequences of cyber breaches have increased, seemingly in lockstep.

Open a newspaper, anywhere in the world, and you’ll probably find a story of a cyberattack that had devastating consequences. Recent examples include a 2016 cyber heist at Bangladesh Bank (the central bank of Bangladesh) that resulted in a US$81 million loss—a sizable portion of the country’s foreign reserves.¹ In 2017, the Shadow Brokers, an appropriately named individual or organization, stole hundreds of megabytes of tools developed by the ...