Bhaskar Pramanik is a board member at State Bank of India and former chairman of Microsoft India. “I consider the board to be the fourth line of defense,” he says. The other lines of defense, including the CIO, the CISO and the internal audit team, need to work together to understand security dynamics, he says. The board’s accountability to all the stakeholders in tackling cybersecurity risk; the board’s involvement in assigning roles and responsibilities for a security strategy; the need to eliminate obstacles.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/board-as-fourth-line-defense-in-security-a-11813