Think about it as a sports team — or any team really; if one player doesn’t play for the whole, it weakens the defense and makes it vulnerable. No matter how good or how important any one individuals seems to be, everyone has a role to play.
Think about it as a sports team — or any team really; if one player doesn’t play for the whole, it weakens the defense and makes it vulnerable. No matter how good or how important any one individuals seems to be, everyone has a role to play.
Executive leadership team members are unique and get treated like VIPs. They get special compensation packages, have unique and sometimes unusual contracts with the company—some aren’t even allowed to drive a car and must be chauffeured everywhere. Many also also experience a slough of “exceptions to the rules” when using IT devices and services.
Some of these benefits are designed to reduce the risk for the company. Others are designed to keep the executive happy and vested in the company’s interests while providing them with the freedom they need to do their job well. However, some of these “perks” could go against what the company is trying to accomplish; they might actually put their systems, data, and even their executive at risk of a cyber compromise.
As discussed in the first chapter of this BlackCloak story, exceptions are indeed a fact of life—a point within the business—and must be dealt with accordingly. While it’s easy to recognize the top-level risk that C-level executives introduce to the company when they go home and work outside of the traditional IT boundaries, it may be less evident for some specific roles and functions such as HR, legal, and finance. Furthermore, the agreement between the executive and the organization may or may not clearly define where the lines of “monitor and control” are drawn.
We got the big picture in chapter 1. Join us now for chapter 2 as we get into the functional view for the challenges businesses face; how do you engage in those really tough conversations with executive-level team members when their “perks” get in the way of securely running the business?
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Guest(s)
Simone Petrella, CEO and Founder at CyberVista (@simonepetrella on Twitter)
James Shreve, Partner and Head of Cybersecurity, Thompson Coburn, LLP
Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder & CEO at BlackCloak (@DrChrisPierson on Twitter)
Resources
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