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disposal to consolidate their


status. The bigger expectation is that every c-suite seat-holder, director and president should job-share Chief Intelligence Officer duties, and also that your organisation’s internal systems should be designed to ensure that intelligence can be captured, preserved


and made seamlessly


available to support decision-making, and project management. A key consideration revolves around


how intelligence enables organisations to withstand and survive the rigours of cyber threats. Hoarding intelligence is no longer an option. The ways in which organisations


source, share


and leverage intelligence is changing. For example, Cisco predicts that digital transformation programmes will lead to smart conferences where AI-powered ‘meeting bots’ will pull- up information resources on large displays


to enhance workgroup


productivity. These bots will work like custom search engines, scanning resources held on internal and external platforms, and presenting apropos research and statistics in real-time. With this prospect in mind, the


Cyber Security Europe ‘Executive Cyber Survival Guide’ here commends five notable examples of cyber


intelligence aimed at meeting the diverse information requirement of board level/c-suite decision-makers. Focus areas that fall within scope include critical topics like cyber insurance and readiness, cyber risk oversight, cyber strategy action planning, cyber threat analysis, and cyber threat intelligence. Each of the reports here impress by the breadth of scope and thoroughness of research. However, what also unites them is that they have been produced


to meet the cyber security information requirement of non- technological senior decision-makers. (Cyber Security Europe will commend more such exemplars in future editions.)


AI-powered ‘meeting bots’ search and pull- up different information resources onto huge displays to enhance workgroup productivity.


THE HISCOX CYBER READINESS REPORT 2018 hiscox.co.uk/cyberreadiness Compiled from a survey of more than 4,100 executives, directorate heads, IT managers and other senior professionals in the UK, US, Germany, Spain and The Netherlands – people on the frontline of the business battle against cyber crime. All are involved in their organisation’s cyber security strategy, and 45% of the sample make final decisions on how their business should respond. One of the revealing characteristics of the cyber experts identified in this report is their take-up of standalone cyber insurance: 60% of cyber experts polled say they have cyber cover, and a further 31% say they plan to take-out cover in the coming 12 months. For comparison, across the entire survey sample, 33% of respondents say they have standalone cyber security cover, while 25% say they intend to adopt it soon. Financial services firms are the most likely to have cyber insurance cover, the report finds.


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