Webcast: Cyber Risk – A Corporate Directors’ Briefing

Cyber experts from Marsh & McLennan Companies and WomenCorporateDirectors hosted an engaging webcast on August 16^th entitled “Cyber Risk – A Corporate Directors’ Briefing.” 

Speakers Catherine Allen, Chairman and CEO, TSFG, and Director, Synovus Financial Corporation, El Paso Electric Company, and Analytics Pros; Kevin Richards, Global Head of Marsh Cyber Risk Consulting: and Elisabeth Case, Managing Director, Marsh Cyber Center of Excellence, provided valuable insight and counsel about: 

• What board members need to know about the evolving cyber risk landscape;
• The increasing focus on response and recovery as essential risk management components, and directors’ role in those functions;
• The value of cyber insurance as a risk transfer mechanism, and considerations for optimal insurance programs; and
• The right questions for directors to ask management, advisors and insurers in board meetings. 

The speakers also addressed key questions from webcast participants, which are included in a fuller summary of representative questions and answers by the panelists.