Cyber is a Top Priority for US Boards in 2018 according to EY

According to EY's latest list of Top priorities for US boards in 2018, Cybersecurity figures prominently in the first of seven priorities for board directors. As EY reminds us, technology is now at the "heart of business" which means that business continuity ("Cyber Resilience" was a key word in 2017) and cybersecurity are top level issues.

EY has a short list of 3 questions for board directors to consider:

1.How is the board staying current on new and evolving technologies and their potential impact on the company’s industry, strategy and business model?

2. Is the board overseeing strategy to continually reimagine the future of the company’s business model and considering ways to see the upside of disruption?

3. Does the board engage in tabletop exercises to simulate a response to a cyber incident or a natural or man-made disaster?

If these questions seem new to you, they should not. We've covered these and many more tough questions in the book that Paul Ferrillo and I co-authored and released at the start of 2017: Take Back Control of Your Cybersecurity Now: Game Changing Concepts on AI and Cyber Governance Solutions for Executives (available in Kindle format and paperback).

And for a limited time, the Kindle edition is available for $0.99, yes that's less than the cost of a cup of coffee/tea/herbal-tea, and still cheaper than most water bottles.