Dear fellow CEO: do these seven things to improve your org’s security posture

A concise seven-step guide for executives to establish and mature organizational information security: hire a CISO reporting to the CEO, document top security risks, create an incident response “brain trust,” build a dedicated security team separate from IT, deploy basic security controls quickly, choose and use a security framework (e.g., NIST or ISO 27001), and measure and report progress to the board.