What The Board Needs To Know
Key questions for directors to ask based on Rubin’s recommendations:
Does the organization maintain an incident response plan to prepare for and respond to cyber incidents? Is the organization leveraging artificial intelligence and automation to modernize security operations and reduce the burden on analysts? …
7 expert-backed strategies to bridge the gap between boards and cyber leaders
What should board members expect from their chief information security officers (CISOs) when they’re reporting on cyber risks? And how should board members act towards their CISOs in turn? Diligent, the governance software provider…
How Much Cybersecurity Expertise Do Boards Really Have?
As of Aug. 31, 107 directors at 113 companies had professional experience in cybersecurity, according to research conducted by WSJ Pro Research. Together, those directors held a total of 124 S&P 500 board seats and represented 2.3% of the directors on the boards of companies in the index…
Risk Management and the Board of Directors
Public companies and their boards of directors face an increasingly complex array of risks that test the resilience of corporate values, strategies, operations, and enterprise risk management frameworks. Tightening monetary policies…
Board refreshment: Finding the right directors to move forward
One of the core duties of any board is to renew itself with an evolving set of members who together can help the company thrive into the future. Problems can arise if a board is allowed to get stale and develops a narrow range of group- thinking that misses risks and opportunities…
Creating Space on the Board for a Chief Human Resources Officer
In the past, boardrooms were populated almost exclusively by current and former CEOs and the occasional CFO. The thinking was that a group of CEOs would have the broad experience to collectively cover any of the issues a company and management team might face. The first crack in that theory…
Nominating/Governance Chair Survey 2023
Nominating/governance committees today are re-focusing on the fundamentals when it comes to board composition. Spencer Stuart’s latest annual survey of nominating/governance committee chairs, conducted in the first quarter of 2023, shows how committees are shining…
Director Compensation: Increases Are Back Among the Largest US Companies
These companies are trendsetters and can provide early insights into evolving pay practices across the broader public company marketplace. This report reflects a summary of pay levels and pay practice trends based on 2023 proxy disclosures….
Here’s how much big companies are paying their board members according to the latest data
Some companies create the wrong impression about how much board members should get paid. Take Tesla, where board directors were in the news last month for, among other reasons, getting forced to return a sizable chunk….
The Power of Being T-Shaped: A Guide to Becoming an Exceptional Non-Executive Director
In the realm of corporate governance, non-executive directors (NEDs) play a crucial role in providing independent oversight, strategic guidance, and diverse perspectives to organizations. As the demands on boards become greater, chairs and nomination committees are looking for NEDs…
