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Eric Swalwell: “As one recently told me who was a Fortune 100 CISO, he said, when an attack happens now, rather than respond to the…”

On the recordApril 30, 2024
As one recently told me who was a Fortune 100 CISO, he said, when an attack happens now, rather than respond to the attack, the first thing that you do is, you huddle all of the lawyers, and you're losing precious response time because you're worried about, like, your personal liability on any action that you take, which means that consumer data and, you know, consumer information and then potentially critical infrastructure could be seriously jeopardized as that's taking place.
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Eric Swalwell
Democratic · California

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Swalwell highlights the impact of personal liability on cybersecurity response times.

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