Companies Should Treat Cyber Threats as Core Business Risk, U.S. Cyber Official Says
February 9th, 2025 by admin
By Catherine Stupp
Corporate boards need to propel companies' investment in cyber defenses and push management to treat hacking threats as a core business risk, according to a top official of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Businesses face growing hacking risks, yet cybersecurity still isn't as ingrained in corporate thinking as it needs to be, said Brandon Wales, the agency's executive director, speaking on Tuesday at the Wall Street Journal's CIO Network Summit.
"This needs to be driven at the board level," he said. "You don't want to start thinking about cybersecurity after your network has been brought down by a ransomware operator."
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