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A CEO’s Guide to Not Becoming the Next
Cyberattack Headline
By Sheetal Pansare, President & Global CEO of Futurism Technologies
Imagine you are a CEO waking up to a Class-action lawsuit simply because your IT department failed to
comply with the necessary security compliances or worse, they didn’t back up mission-critical business
data exposing sensitive customer information to potential hackers.
Yes! Data breaches make hot news headlines almost every day! Many things can go haywire when it
comes to containing a data breach: from outages to unplanned downtime and timely detection of an
intrusion attempt to name few.
Did you know?
CEO of Optus (a leading Telco in Australia) took full accountability for a brutal data breach that
jeopardized sensitive data of more than 9 million customers.
Now this can be hard for organizations that are led by leaders who undermine the importance of creating
as well as maintaining a strong line of cyber defense. This is what happened with a leading French
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