Security Consulting Firms: Role
There is an ever-greater pressure, said Michael Hamilton, co-founder of Seattle-based CI Security, an information security consulting firm, for those with the best real-time understanding of how cybercrime is evolving to have the same kind of access to chief executives and governing board members as those who manage finances and other critical business functions have long enjoyed. They’re trying to avoid records disclosure, theft, extortion, and the disruption of critical operating capacity. Those are direct fiduciary risks to the business. There is a definite push across all industries, especially those that hold sensitive records of patients or employees, to elevate information security among top decision-makers. Every CEO, at this point, is now in the business of cybersecurity. They need to be engaged and understand what the risk is on a real-time basis; the threat landscape is ever-evolving and becoming more sophisticated. In San Diego County, nothing could have underlin...