5 Reasons Sony Pictures Will Be A Cybersecurity Inflection Point

Everyone by now has heard the rhetoric, foreign policy debate and Hollywood gossip surrounding the massive data breach at Sony Pictures Entertainment, reportedly engineered by the government of North Korea. While its immediate impact affects popular culture — withdrawal of the film The Interview from its U.S. premiere and theatrical exhibition — far less discussed have been the likely effects of the high-profile intrusion and theft on cybersecurity issues at the corporate officer and Board of Directors level.

For five reasons, this episode may well (and to this author, should) turn out to be a tipping point in the adoption by corporate boards and officers of strong cyber threat prevention, detection and remediation practices.