Corporate Directors Take the Next Step on Cybersecurity: Where’s Congress?

Posted on June 18, 2019 at 11:27 am

by Larry Clinton In Chicago this week the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) will host the first in a series of nationwide events on the economics of cybersecurity. The courses start with a brief discussion of the now well-known existence of cyber-attacks on enterprises. However, they quickly move beyond the problem and instruct board […]


We Need Sensible Cybersecurity Regulations – More Is Not Necessarily Better

Posted on June 12, 2019 at 11:08 am

by Larry Clinton When the ISA published the Cybersecurity Social Contract three years ago, one of the facts we documented was that some in critical industries were being forced to divert between 30%-40% of their scarce cybersecurity resources to largely redundant regulatory compliance. This fact highlights the twin maladies of undermining efforts to strengthen cybersecurity without improving either […]


ISA Leads Executive Education Course on Cybersecurity Today at Wharton School

Posted on June 10, 2019 at 10:09 am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Larry Clinton President and CEO, Internet Security Alliance (202) 236-0001 lclinton@isalliance.org The Internet Security Alliance today is leading its course on cybersecurity as part of the Stonier Graduate Executive Education Program at the Wharton School, featuring a guest faculty of industry all-stars in cybersecurity. The Program is taking place today the University […]


ISA Announces All-Star Faculty for Wharton School Class on Cybersecurity

Posted on June 7, 2019 at 11:28 am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Larry Clinton President and CEO, Internet Security Alliance (202) 236-0001 lclinton@isalliance.org The Internet Security Alliance today announced the full list of guest faculty who will be assisting in teaching its course on cybersecurity as part of the Stonier Graduate Executive Education Program at the Wharton School. The Program at the University of […]


Experts from GE and FIS Help Students Deal with the Inevitable: Cyber Attacks

Posted on June 6, 2019 at 11:00 am

Once upon a time, industry experts would caution students and conference attendees that with cyber-attacks, it was not a question of if, but when. That adage has now matured into a more modern version: There are only two types of companies — those who know they have been successfully compromised, and those that don’t know […]


Cyber Experts Will Help Wharton Students Address the “Most Vexing Challenge”

Posted on June 5, 2019 at 10:56 am

The insider threat has become one of the biggest threats in the realm of cybersecurity. Despite the amount of risk posed by insiders, corporate executives often lack the awareness of the threat to adequately address it. That is why the Internet Security Alliance’s upcoming course on cybersecurity at the ABA Stonier Graduate Program at the […]


Internet Security Alliance to educate executives on cybersecurity during UPenn Wharton School program

Posted on May 31, 2019 at 10:00 am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Larry Clinton President and CEO, Internet Security Alliance (202) 236-0001 lclinton@isalliance.org (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – The Internet Security Alliance will again teach a cybersecurity course for corporate executives during the 2019 ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School on June 10. This year marks the second year ISA will […]


The EU Privacy Law is Not Working, But Why?

Posted on May 30, 2019 at 10:06 am

by Larry Clinton In 2016 the European Union enacted arguably the most stringent privacy law in the western world. Following a two-year transition, the law went into full effect last May. Although advocates had suggested the stringent penalties in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) would deter individual privacy invasions and reduce market domination from […]


Internet Security Alliance developing cyber handbook for European corporate boards

Posted on May 29, 2019 at 11:23 am

The Internet Security Alliance has announced plans to develop a “handbook” on managing cybersecurity risks for European corporate boards of directors, building on similar efforts across the Atlantic. “This week the board of directors of the European Confederation of Directors Associations (ecoDa) agreed to work with the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) on a European adaptation […]


European corporate boards agree to create European adaptation of Cyber-Risk Oversight Handbook

Posted on May 28, 2019 at 11:26 am

by Larry Clinton This week the board of directors of the European Confederation of Directors Associations (ecoDa) agreed to work with the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) on a European adaptation of the Cyber-Risk Oversight Handbook originally published by the National Association of Corporate Directors in the U.S. This agreement indicates further progress that corporate boards […]