Increasingly, at least in some
geographies -it would be nice to be able
to say that yours and mine are among them-
cybersecurity is entering the Board of Directors’ agenda. A recent study
by NYSE raised to 80 the percentage of organizations that have discussed this
problem at BoD-level at least once. 10% of them after suffering an incident! With
such cyber incidents grabbing more and more headlines -some people already consider 2015 as the
year of cybercrime- it is reasonable to
think that that figure will increase. Heather Pemberton Levy, former Vice President
at Gartner, points in this direction when she states that “by 2020, [cyber]security will no longer be a technology problem, it
will be a business one”. Therefore, my dear directors, you still have a
time limit of five years, at most, to catch up on Cybersecurity! Naturally, always
that reality did not accelerate your plans, as we recommend. (Remember the 10%
I have just quoted).
Within the Industry sector in
particular, motivations for cyberattacks are many, their effects vary (and are
dangerous) and enablers are, even, larger: the vast amount of data that the Internet
provides gives a level of knowledge on individuals and their companies that
nobody thought of before (specially, the affected parties); the number of
industrial control devices connected to the Internet or to corporate networks
has tripled in the last year; and, finally, attack vectors, old and new, are still
out there (and have been for a while), despite vendors’ efforts to face them.
"What more could you ask for?", someone
might say.
And what better topic for
discussion than this!, we say. A discussion that CCI will be promoting among the membership of "The CCI Ecosystem" present at the
“4th International Congress on Industrial Cybersecurity” to be held
this week in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
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