The Case for Lean Cybersecurity Leadership

Name: The Case for Lean Cybersecurity Leadership (English version)
SKU: SMR66337

Andrew Flostrand; Andrew Park; Dionysios Demetis; Jan Kietzmann; Leyland Pitt; Ian McCarthy

Product #:SMR66337

Supplier:MIT Sloan Management Review

Discipline:General Management, International Business

Details:Article (PDF) • 7 pages • 2024-05-05

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Business management Management International business Leadership Leadership and managing people

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Organizations concerned with cybersecurity risk may dedicate more managerial resources to the issue, but new research finds that this has the potential to heighten rather than reduce risk. Individuals in senior cybersecurity were found to routinely overestimate their capabilities relative to people in similar roles in peer organizations — an overconfident stance that can be dangerous in a fast-moving threat landscape.