Case Study 4: Accountability Gap (Roles and Responsibilities)

Scenario

You’re in your final weeks at Padgett-Beale as a management intern. Hopefully, this has been an enriching and rewarding experience for you. Before you finish out your time here, the Chief of Staff has asked you to prepare one last briefing paper – this time your audience will be three new members of the corporation’s Board of Directors (BoD). These busy executives need to be brought up to speed on their responsibilities with respect to cybersecurity.

The Chief of Staff has provided you with a list of readings that have been reviewed and found acceptable for use in preparing this briefing (the readings appear under Research in this file). The new members of the board will each receive a read-ahead package containing these readings.

As you work your way through the CoS’s reading list, you should take notes and familiarize yourself with the roles and responsibilities of a member of the Board of Directors. You should also review the Accountability Gap research report and the findings from that research. From these resources and others that you find on your own, you’ll need to identify and then discuss at least five security and privacy related issues that the board members need to be aware of. These should include cybersecurity related responsibilities for BoD members as enacted in federal and state laws and/or published in government or industry regulations. (Hint: look for terms such as fiduciary duty, liability, due diligence, etc.)

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