Special report cybersecurity at the speed of digital business

Cybersecurity in a digital era

Cybersecurity in a digital era

Even before the advent of a global pandemic, executive teams faced a challenging and dynamic environment as they sought to protect their institutions from cyberattack, without degrading their ability to innovate and extract value from technology investments.

Over the past year, we’ve sought to publish cybersecurity articles in various areas that will help senior executives consider their options and make pragmatic decisions about how to move forward in making the right tradeoffs in managing technology risks.

Get a strategy in place that will activate the organization

How cybersecurity can best support the digital enterprise

Cybersecurity: Linchpin of the digital enterprise

July 19, 2019 -

As companies digitize businesses and automate operations, cyberrisks proliferate; here is how the cybersecurity organization can support a secure digital agenda.

Create granular, analytic risk management capabilities

The risk-based approach to cybersecurity

The risk-based approach to cybersecurity

October 8, 2019 -

The most sophisticated institutions are moving from a “maturity based” to a “risk based” approach for managing cyberrisk. Here is how they are doing it.

Enhanced cyberrisk reporting: Opening doors to risk-based cybersecurity

Enhanced cyberrisk reporting: Opening doors to risk-based cybersecurity

January 29, 2020 -

New cyberrisk management information systems provide executives with the risk transparency they need to transform organizational cyberresilience.

Critical resilience: Adapting infrastructure to repel cyber threats

Critical resilience: Adapting infrastructure to repel cyberthreats

January 15, 2019 -

As the digital world becomes increasingly connected, it is no longer possible for infrastructure owners and operators to remain agnostic in the face of evolving cyberthreats. Here’s what they can do to build an integrated cyberdefense.

Build cybersecurity into business products and processes

The consumer-data opportunity and the privacy imperative

The consumer-data opportunity and the privacy imperative

April 27, 2020 -

As consumers become more careful about sharing data, and regulators step up privacy requirements, leading companies are learning that data protection and privacy can create a business advantage.

Consumer-data privacy and personalization at scale

Consumer-data privacy and personalization at scale: How leading retailers and consumer brands can strategize for both

November 7, 2019 -

Customer concerns about the security and privacy of their online data can impede personalized marketing at scale. Best-practice companies are building protections into their digital properties.

Financial crime and fraud in the age of cybersecurity

Financial crime and fraud in the age of cybersecurity

October 1, 2019 -

As cybersecurity threats compound the risks of financial crime and fraud, institutions are crossing functional boundaries to enable collaborative resistance.

Critical infrastructure companies and the global cybersecurity threat

Critical infrastructure companies and the global cybersecurity threat

April 11, 2019 -

How the energy, mining, and materials industries can meet the unique challenges of protecting themselves in a digital world.

The cybersecurity posture of financial-services companies: IIF/McKinsey Cyber Resilience Survey

The cybersecurity posture of financial-services companies: IIF/McKinsey Cyber Resilience Survey

April 3, 2020 -

Cyberrisk has become one of the top risk concerns among financial-services firms, and new research from the Institute of International Finance (IIF) and McKinsey can help provide an understanding of ways firms can enable and strengthen cyber resilience.

A practical approach to supply-chain risk management

A practical approach to supply-chain risk management

March 8, 2019 -

In supply-chain risk management, organizations often don’t know where to start. We offer a practical approach.

The race for cybersecurity: Protecting the connected car in the era of new regulation

The race for cybersecurity: Protecting the connected car in the era of new regulation

October 10, 2019 -

The car industry’s digital transformation exposes new cybersecurity threats. Learn what OEMs can do to protect their cars and customers from hackers.

Defense of the cyberrealm: How organizations can thwart cyberattacks

Defense of the cyberrealm: How organizations can thwart cyberattacks

January 18, 2019 -

Governments and companies have much work to do to protect people, institutions, and even entire cities and countries from potentially devastating large-scale cyberattacks.