{"id":4744,"date":"2020-06-09T14:44:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T14:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.cynance.co\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2020-10-27T13:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:06:41","slug":"executives-responsibility-for-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outofsite.biz\/cynance\/executives-responsibility-for-cyber-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Executives&#8217; personal responsibility for cyber attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1603803972396{padding-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8221;]<span class=\"break-words\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Business leaders are responsible for everything that goes on in the business &#8211; good and bad. No wonder that according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2020-06-08\/third-of-people-hold-chief-executive-personally-responsible-for-cyber-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new research<\/a> 35% of UK consumers see a business leader as personally responsible for a cyber breach when such occurs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The UK government, via its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/online-harms-white-paper\/online-harms-white-paper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Online Harms legislation<\/a>, has proposed stricter punishment for tech firm chief executives who fail to protect users data.<\/p>\n<p>What catches my mind though, is what do the remaining 65% of the questioned individuals think&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Who in their eyes needs to take responsibility for cyber attacks? The chief information security officer who may wish to do more but acts in a certain business environment and culture and many times suffers from insufficient resources? The risk, compliance or internal audit teams for not identifying the gaps in preparedness for a breach or not raising a &#8216;red flag&#8217;, or maybe the external consultants who came in, delivered their service and created the impression of \u2018business as usual\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>I have my own opinion about that. What about you?[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who should be held responsible for cyber attacks and data breaches? Fingers are being pointed at Chief Executives Officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofsite.biz\/cynance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofsite.biz\/cynance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofsite.biz\/cynance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofsite.biz\/cynance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofsite.biz\/cynance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outofsite.biz\/cynance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofsite.biz\/cynance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofsite.biz\/cynance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofsite.biz\/cynance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofsite.biz\/cynance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}