State of the Cyber Threat & Consequences of Inaction
The cyber threat is increasingly sophisticated. Many cyber defences are inadequate to mitigate the risk. While many boards of directors are beginning to ask probing questions about the cyber threat, not enough are engaging this issue adequately. This is a discussion of what boards need to know in order to more effectively manage the cyber risk, which now qualifies as one of the more critical threats almost any board will face.
About the speaker
Richard Dorough
Senior Managing Director
at
PwC
Richard Dorough is as a Senior Managing Director and National Practice leader in our Cyber Breach Response, Remediation, and Investigation Practice.
Richard has over 20 years’ experience in IT Security, IT Forensics, IT Audit, and IT Governance.
Areas of focus include digital threat assessments, Cyber incident identification and response, electronic investigations and IT Security organisation and operations centre assessment and development.
Richard was the Global Chief Information Security Officer for Textron.
As Global Chief Information Security Officer, Richard was responsible for developing, maintaining, and assuring continuous improvement of Textron’s Information Technology Security strategy, programs, policies, and processes.
This included leadership of the Information Technology Risk Management (ITRM) Council, which is a team of Security leaders from across Textron’s Business Units and COEs.
Richard was also responsible for IT Privacy governance, software asset management, disaster recovery and led the IT portion of the electronic discovery (eDiscovery) program for Textron.
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