Enterprise Cyber Risk Management as a Value Creator: Leverage Cybersecurity for Competitive Advantage

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3. The Courts Are Picking Up the Cyber Pace

Bob Chaput¹  

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Belleair Beach, FL, USA

 

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.

—Mahatma Gandhi¹

There is an emergence of a de facto legal “standard of care” related to cyber risk management. This chapter highlights several foundational and recent privacy and cybersecurity legal cases that boards of directors should be mindful of, especially those of public companies. These cases may represent a trend toward expectations for greater board ...