Written by Mouaz Alnouri.
I recently attended the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2023 in Sydney. During the conference, Gartner predicted that board governance would evolve over the coming years. Gartner predicts that by 2025, 40% of boards will have dedicated cyber security committees overseen by qualified board members.
I also recently attended the company directors course by the Australian Institute of Company Directors, which helped me better understand the duties and responsibilities of company directors and what things typically concern them.
Hence, I decided to write this blog post to combine my knowledge from the cyber security industry and my learnings from the company directors course to help cyber security professionals and directors work together on managing cyber security risks for their organisations.
It’s not surprising that boards are beginning to care more about cyber security. The increasing interest is because the Australian Cyber Security Centre has observed over 67,500 cyber crimes during the 2020-21 financial year, representing an increase of nearly 13% from the previous…
