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What do we want the Board and C-Suite to know about cybersecurity? If you could teach them one thing about cybersecurity that would stick, what would that be?

Check out this post and this post for the basis for our conversation on this week’s episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn and our guest Phil Huggins (@oracuk), CISO, NHS Test & Trace, Department of Health and Social Care.

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In this episode

• What the Board needs to know to make the CISO’s job more effective
• It’s not about the Board understanding cyber – but it is about mitigating risk
• Security is a shared responsibility: Board & CISOs
• Using other companies’ breaches as Board learning opportunities