- What: The article discusses the importance of Boards of Directors prioritizing non-human identity governance in cybersecurity.
- Why: Boards need to set risk appetite, allocate capital, and demand evidence of business resilience against cyber disruptions.
- Impact: Reactively addressing cybersecurity after incidents leads to disclosure requirements, customer impact, and financial exposure.
- Affected: Organizations and their Boards of Directors.
Boards of Directors (BoDs) do three things exceptionally well when cyber is framed correctly. They set risk appetite, they allocate capital, and they demand evidence that the business can withstand disruption without losing momentum. Why cyber keeps becoming a board topic Boards typically address cybersecurity reactively. When material incidents occur, cyber becomes their top priority as disclosure requirements, customer impact, and financial exposure collapse into one event. For example, U.S. public companies are required by … More → The post Why boards must prioritize non-human identity governance appeared first on Help Net Security .