At what point has a director served too long? What about term limits? A mandatory retirement age? When do a director’s skills become stale? These issues are addressed in this issue of The Informed Board, as well as why proxy...more
11/25/2024
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Artificial Intelligence ,
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Data Protection ,
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Proxy Season ,
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Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
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Technology Sector
Cyber threats continue to grow as a result of increased digitization, widespread use of cloud computing, advanced connectivity and artificial intelligence (AI), requiring boards of directors across all sectors to focus more...more
11/22/2024
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Cybersecurity ,
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Data Privacy ,
Machine Learning ,
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On February 28, 2024, President Biden issued Executive Order 14117 (the EO) on “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern” that would...more
3/7/2024
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On October 30, 2023, the SEC filed a litigated complaint against SolarWinds, a software development company, and Timothy Brown, its chief information security officer (CISO). The SEC alleges that from October 2018, when...more
11/7/2023
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Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
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Disclosure ,
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SolarWinds