Willie Sutton (a famous bank robber) was reportedly asked, “Why do you rob banks?” He reportedly said, “Because that’s where the money is.” https://www.snopes.com/quotes/sutton.asp
“Hackers Plunder Crypto Exchange,” The Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2018 B5. More than $500 million in credits hacked from the Coincheck site in Japan. One assumes virtual banks are easier to rob than brick and mortar banks.
This is a concrete example of the cost of a cyber breach. But it also follows on from an earlier post (Law School Exam Question) equating cash money and information, in terms of value.
If businesses (including the Board of Directors) treated information assets as cash, and managing, protecting, and controlling the organization’s information as currency, would that be “information governance”? Why do they handle information assets differently? Why should the Board and the officers get a pass on this? The shareholders certainly don’t.
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