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Cybersecurity

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Managing the Cyber Risks of Remote Work

With millions of office employees suddenly working from home, companies are more exposed to cyber attack than ever before. Take these seven steps now to protect your IT and sensitive data.

World Economic Forum

Incentivizing Responsible and Secure Innovation

Cyberattacks are on the rise with no sign of slowing down. Investors must prioritize cybersecurity to protect, and increase, their financial returns.

Forbes

Five Ways Business Directors can Prepare for the Future of Cybersecurity

Boards of directors are tasked with setting the example that cybersecurity is vital for long-term success. What can these leaders focus on to ensure that informed decisions are being made?

HBR

Companies Need to Rethink Cybersecurity Leadership

Cyber leaders must move beyond a focus on technical tasks to make cybersecurity a critical and proactive part of companywide strategy.

Automotive World

Cyberresilience: Making Autonomous Vehicles a Reality

Autonomous vehicles are essentially computers on wheels, and their increasingly complex digital technology opens the door for a new kind of cyber attack. Cyber security will play a vital role in bringing self-driving vehicles from science fiction fantasy to the real world.

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A Smarter Way to Quantify Cybersecurity Risk

Not every application or data asset requires the same type or level of cybersecurity protection. BCG’s Cyber Doppler tool quantifies the likelihood of a cyberattack occurring as well as the impact of a successful attack.

Are You Spending Enough on Cybersecurity?

The best response: answer this question with questions. That way, you can make an informed decision about what’s right for your organization.

Building Cyberresilience in the Electricity Ecosystem

A large-scale cyberattack on the power grid could inflict major economic damage. Utility boards must act now to address the looming cyberrisks.

Radically Simplifying Regulatory Compliance in Cybersecurity

BCG Platinion has developed the Financial Sector Cybersecurity Framework Profile, which harmonizes and consolidates regulatory requirements. The profile improves cybersecurity while significantly reducing compliance costs.

Helping Financial Institutions Manage Cyber Risk

Today’s digital age opens an ever-expanding window for cyberattacks in the financial sector. Threat Intelligence-Based Ethical Red Teaming (TIBER-EU)—the European Central Bank's advisory guidance on cybersecurity—hopes to close that window.

World Economic Forum

Four Ways to Cyberproof your Business During Mergers & Acquisitions

Business leaders must take four steps to successfully manage cyberrisk throughout an M&A transaction.

Forbes

Table-Top Attack Simulations: Cyberresilience's Swiss Army Knife

Similar to fire drills, table-top exercises that simulate cyberattacks can help prepare a company for a wide range of situations.

Geneva Association

Cyber Insurance as a Risk Mitigation Strategy

As cyberattacks—and government regulations—increase, insurers are uniquely positioned to help their customers improve cyber awareness and better understand and manage the risks ahead.

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How to Make Cybersecurity a Key Part of Digital Transformation

Too often, cybersecurity is an afterthought that’s foisted upon legacy networks and IT systems that have been around for decades. To embed cybersecurity into the digitization process, companies need to create a new operating model.

Cybersecurity in a Fractured World

The Cybersecurity Assistance Local Governments Need

Citizens rightly expect government to take steps to protect against cyberattacks. But state and local governments are typically poorly suited to addressing cybersecurity on their own.

Cybersecurity in a Fractured World

Managing Critical Infrastructure: An Interview with Israel Electric’s Yosi Shneck

Israel Electric has seen its share of cyberattacks. The company’s senior vice president of information and communication discusses how to maintain vigilance.

Cybersecurity in a Fractured World

Cybergovernance and the Role of the Board: An Interview with Kaiser Permanente’s George DeCesare

Companies need to broaden their discussion of risk and adopt a common language for talking about the challenges they face in improving cyberresilience.

Cybersecurity in a Fractured World

Advancing Cyberresilience in the Electricity Ecosystem: An Interview with Iberdrola’s Rosa Kariger

Ensuring the cybersecurity of the electric grid is critical, requiring the engagement of the entire organization, proper processes and training, and vigilant evaluation of new technologies.

Cybersecurity in a Fractured World

Giving Cybersecurity Its Due in the Boardroom: An Interview with Standard Chartered’s Cheri McGuire

How do chief security officers shift their organizations’ approach from reactive to proactive?

World Economic Forum

Toward a Model for Public-Private Collaboration in Cybersecurity

Persistent misunderstandings over policy and technical issues have plagued collaboration between public and private sectors on cybersecurity. More and better cooperation is needed.

World Economic Forum

Cybersecurity: A Human Problem Masquerading as a Technical Problem

In the critical struggle to keep their digital data secure, businesses must address the tradeoff between end-user comfort and effective security patch deployment.

World Economic Forum

ADVANCING CYBERRESILIENCE: PRINCIPLES AND TOOLS FOR BOARDS

Being resilient requires those at the highest levels of an organization to recognize the importance of avoiding and proactively mitigating risks.

World Economic Forum

Our Critical Infrastructure Is More Vulnerable Than Ever—It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way

At a time of unprecedented exposure, organizations that integrate cybersecurity into their culture and strategic planning will be the most resilient.

Artificial Intelligence Is a Threat to Cybersecurity. It’s Also a Solution.

Companies are in an arms race. They need to protect their fledgling AI programs. AI also gives attackers a powerful new capability. The solution? AI.

Banking’s Cybersecurity Blind Spot—and How to Fix It

Banks must recognize that cyberattacks are more than just an IT problem—they’re a major threat to the industry and to the world’s financial system.

How Technology and Collaboration Can Help Create Smart and Safe Cities

BCG has developed a set of recommendations that address the common challenges of urban security across a wide array of strategic, technical, and operational topics.

Building the Cyberresilient Health Care Organization

The cyberrisks to the health care industry include more than ransomware and threaten more than hospitals. All kinds of companies and institutions are vulnerable.

Time to Team Up

Cybersecurity coverage is a growth opportunity, but the real prize will go to insurers that join forces with IT security firms to create more value for their corporate clients.

Ensuring Cybersecurity in the Electric Utility Industry

As electric utilities embrace intelligent digital networks, they become far more vulnerable to cyberattacks. The industry must act decisively, going well beyond cybersecurity basics.

The Cybersecurity Assistance Local Governments Need

Citizens rightly expect government to take steps to protect against cyberattacks. But state and local governments are typically poorly suited to addressing cybersecurity on their own.

Building a Cyberresilient Organization

Because no organization’s cyberdefenses are 100% impenetrable, companies need to develop the ability to weather and recover gracefully from the almost inevitable breaches.

Cybersecurity Meets IT Risk Management

As the role of digitization in company operations grows, vulnerability to data theft, leakage of intellectual property, and the like is growing apace. Many companies are underprepared.

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It Takes a Coalition to Protect the Internet of Things

Baby monitors shutting down major websites? It’s not science fiction. New malware threatens IoT-connected devices—and the internet economy. But a collaborative approach offers solutions.

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Develop a Cybersecurity Strategy as If Your Organization’s Existence Depends on It

As businesses increasingly rely on technology, addressing catastrophic risks—threats that could cause the loss of data, production systems, or intellectual property—must be on every executive’s agenda.

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