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While SolarWinds grabbed headlines, “think about all the other impacts to the business that were happening at the same time,” namely COVID-19, says John Pescatore, director of emerging security trends at The SANS Institute, who leads quarterly cybersecurity briefings for board members. “To the board, cybersecurity is one of many risks they’re involved in having responsibility for, and by far not the biggest risk for most companies.”
Some 85% of security leaders in a recent Trend Micro/Enterprise Strategy Group survey say that boards of directors are more engaged in security decisions and strategy than they were two years ago. Those executives, however, are often passively drawn in because of a major breach, new compliance requirements or a new security program by a CISO.