MIT Sloan Management Review Article on A Comprehensive Approach to Cyber Resilience

As data becomes more critical in supporting business units and functions — and as cyberthreats grow — the responsibility for keeping that data safe must expand beyond IT.

It’s hard to imagine a more challenging year than 2020 for data security. The pandemic meant that millions of employees worldwide were suddenly working from home. More severe cyberthreats — some from highly sophisticated state actors — threatened company databases. And at a regional level, natural disasters disrupted operations and supply chains.

About the Author

Chon Abraham is an associate professor of information systems at the College of William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business and a military reserve cyber officer who teaches and researches cyber resilience and governance topics. Ronald R. Sims, the Floyd Dewey Gottwald Sr. Professor of Business Administration at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business, teaches organizational behavior topics, including human resource management relative to cybersecurity and information security.

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