Compliance & Cybersecurity – Working And Worrying Together About The Intersection Of People And Technology

I'm not a cyber expert, but as a compliance professional with accountability for internal investigations of employee and third-party misconduct I've had a front row seat to the evolution of risk that has mirrored the mass adoption of new technology.

Protecting information used to be less complex. Keeping bad actors outside of an organization meant fences, door locks and security guards. While managing the risk of employees and other insiders misusing or stealing assets and information was a little tricky; but good hiring practices, security cameras and simple physical access limitation policies worked pretty well. After all, stealing information meant physically taking or copying actual documents and walking out with them – or taking pictures with a camera and then getting the film developed. Pretty cumbersome and inefficient.