During an attack, what should the C-Suite do?

As executive support is crucial to developing a cyber-resilient organization, this article gives the viewpoint of the person who’s most directly involved in identifying, combating, and recovering from the incident.

Even though the CEO may be the go-to person on cyber-risk matters and the board’s principal point of contact, they need help from others, as all members of the executive board share equal responsibility for maintaining a safe network, especially the CISO and the CIO of the organization, who need the support of the C-suite in order to maintain their cyber resilience.

Having collaborated extensively with the Chief information officer (CIO), Chief information security officer (CISO), Chief Risk Officer (CRO), and Compliance, Security, and Risk officer (CSRO) I am in a good position to share my knowledge with the crisis response team and help close the gap between the technical and business sides of risk management.