Security as a boardroom agenda item

Talk about Defcon 5. The McKinsey Quarterly (sub required) tells its executive audiences to be wary of cyberattacks. Wow, since when did strategy firms and CEOs start focusing on digital security?

Before IT folks rejoice and spend their likely increased budgets, listen to what Chris Anderson of Wired has to say.

Chris, who knows a thing or two about security and writes in a recent issue about the explosion of drones and related security issues, told an IT audience at HP Discover last month he trusts security in the Google public cloud more than his own IT. Why? Because perversely, it is attacked all the time and that forces it to invest in the best security people and tools. Kinda like a bank. Willie Sutton may find it a good target but it can invest in much thicker safes than we can in our mattresses.

In my recent book, I included “paranoid” as 1 of 12 attributes of the new technology elite. It goes way beyond cyberattacks. As companies embed technology in their products they need to prepare for teardowns, digital espionage and many other industry nuances. i have excerpted the chapter below. BTW, it includes a case study on a drone which can penetrate corporate networks and eavesdrop on mobile conversations.

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