Do You Know Where Your Company’s Data Is?

The security industry is beginning to shift its focus, with more emphasis on activities like collaboration across the organization, behavioral monitoring, identifying tiers of risk and establishing multiple layers of threat analytics, writes Jason Straight from UnitedLex, in a Today’s General Counsel article that looks at new approaches to information governance and cybersecurity. One key development is that in the ranking or priorities for many boards of directors, cybersecurity now occupies a position along with credit risk, liquidity risk and operational risk. But like any essential corporate activity, cybersecurity cannot be allowed to burn resources without limit. That means a risk-based approach is a practical necessity.