by Bob Barker | Mar 30, 2020 | Cyber Risk
CEOs: Maintain Cyber Resilience While Dealing with COVID-19 What is the relationship between the coronavirus outbreak and cybersecurity? Answer: They both require conscious CEO leadership—and attending to one must not subtract from a focus on the other. Attempting to...
by Bob Barker | May 15, 2019 | Cyber Risk
How Risk Managers Can Manage Cyber Risk We recently attended our first RIMS Annual Conference in Boston. It’s the largest gathering of risk management professionals. The conference primarily serves corporate risk managers and members of the insurance industry, and...
by Bob Barker | Mar 30, 2018 | Cyber Risk
In a recent Westlaw Journal article, I shared my conviction that the effects from the massive Equifax breach are only beginning to be felt. I believe this breach will have far reaching effects and perhaps change cyber law forever. “While the Equifax breach isn’t the...
by Bob Barker | Jan 3, 2018 | Cyber Risk, Cybergovernance
Cybersecurity governance moved up during 2017 as the #1 concern of corporate directors The Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s annual survey of revealed directors’ major concerns: “The greatest threat to our markets right now is the cyber threat.” “The past year...
by Bob Barker | Sep 22, 2017 | Cyber Risk
Consider the reality of a cyber breach. The board of a company hears about the most recent highly publicized breach and asks the CISO about it. The CISO is reassuring (“I’ve got this”), indicating that all the latest edge protection, intrusion detection, and other...
by Bob Barker | Aug 16, 2017 | Cyber Risk
Wringing our hands while acknowledging our cyber risk problem isn’t helping. It’s generally agreed that we are falling farther behind in addressing the risk of catastrophic economy and infrastructure failures due to cyberattacks. The answer is in front of us if we...
