Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Cybersecurity Becoming No. 1 Concern for GCs and Directors

Here is an interesting piece of information.

63% of the individuals surveyed by Law.com ‘s Corporate Counsel believe that the General Counsel needs to take charge of cybersecurity and not their IT departments.

63P

Link: http://urtak.is/NJFOu1 

Now this is going to come about through the Corporate Governance or Corporate Compliance areas of the corporate legal department. The skill sets that currently are located in the Information Technology departments will be absorbed by the GC. One group will be putting together the standards (governance) while the other (compliance) will be testing and checking.

Born from this will be additional national standards much like the ISO 9000 movement in the early ‘90s..

Cybersecurity Becoming No. 1 Concern for GCs and Directors

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