Each month, “Anschuetz on Leadership” episodes look at unique ways for business to approach leadership. Christian Anschuetz is an adventurer, entrepreneur, and United States Marine Corps Captain (not on active duty). He’s been a CIO, CDO, and founded a nonprofit to help connect military veterans with business leaders for mutually beneficial outcomes. Today, Christian and Bob look at the biggest cybersecurity risk for organizations—human error—and discuss how leaders need to address it through their own example and more thoughtful implementation.
Episode 18 | How to Cultivate Cybersecurity Awareness
The Big Themes:
- Fixing human error: The biggest cybersecurity vulnerability companies have is their people, and there’s no software tool or system that is more powerful than cultivating an awareness of secure practices among employees.
- Setting the right example: Business leaders must practice what they preach. No more leaving laptops open to email inboxes on our desks. Demonstrate the company’s mindset by taking data security seriously and preach it to the whole team.
- How to lead externally: Christian talks about the dangers of “convergence for the sake of convergence,” where manufacturers are creating digital products without being thoughtful about the cybersecurity implications of, for example, a poorly designed app for an oven.
The Big Quote: “Unless you start building a culture around the proper treatment of information—who can access it under what circumstances, etc.—and then put real consequences associated with violating the proper handling and use of it, you’re never going to really address the weakest link in security.”
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