The New Boardroom Mandate: Data Security As A Strategic Priority

**Executive summary:** This Forbes Council article explains the evolving role of CISOs and provides ten practical best practices for data security—emphasizing visibility, upskilling teams, modernizing tooling, addressing technical debt, embedding security in culture, automation, incident response planning, continuous compliance, executive collaboration, and treating data as a strategic asset—while noting rising complexity from cloud and AI but not describing any specific cyber incident.