In a post on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance titled “Cybersecurity: An Evolving Governance Challenge”, the authors highlighted the following three main issues. I have added a…
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The Colonia Oil debacle was catastrophic by itself. Suppose the bad actors had shut down the entire electrical grid at the same? Suppose they could have compromise access to the…
In this blog post, I will share my thoughts on why cyber risk is considered a board level fiduciary responsibility, the need for a globally sourced set of board level...
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115 Year old University Fails to Follow Proper Fiduciary Practices and Devastates the Legacy of its Founder. This is a good case where there is value to integrating fiduciary due diligence…
When reading the Terms of Service (TOS) for cloud data providers like Google, Microsoft, or Dropbox, you might be forgiven if you think that your data is safe. Technically, your…
by Alden G Lank DBA and FFI Fellow, and Robert R. Patterson MBA, AIFA Read the business section of any metropolitan newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, or Financial Times…
There have been a number of articles about the impact of the EU’s implementation of the GDPR on how US companies do business with the EU member countries. In this…
There are 694,000 retirement plans, and 2.2 million health plans covering over 143 million workers in the US. As fiduciaries, we must remember that they depend on us to act…
The importance of information and internet security cannot be over emphasized. When most people think of cyber risk, they usually associate it with banks, insurance companies, medical facilities etc. As...
Read MoreImagine that you are the board chair of a major corporation with operations in multiple countries. You are preparing to meet with the press to announce a new product. Your…