ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP AND CYBER SECURITY GOUVERNANCE

Abstract

In light of the digital age we live in and the increasingly complex cyber threats that organizations are constantly facing, many organizations are struggling to implement and enforce effective governance programs for cyber security, which has become essential to thriving in today’s digital economy, prompting leaders and managers to understand and deal with it as a strategic risk to their organization level and not just IT risks. The role of managerial leaders is to provide risk governance, which is a trusted challenge to independent management and oversight. Managers should not manage cyber security risks on a small scale, but rather ensure that management is doing a good job by overseeing their practices. However, if managers lack an understanding of the specifics of cyber issues, they may not understand all the ramifications of what executives tell them. To fulfill their oversight responsibilities, directors must proactively address knowledge gaps and the board must acquire deep cybersecurity expertise to effectively protect organizations’ interests. Accordingly, this pure paper came to address the role of managers-leaders in the governance of cybersecurity by undertaking the task of supervising cyber risks, which were identified in six steps that managers-leaders and the board of directors must take into account.