Directors should ensure the board has the skills and experience to ask management, CIOs, CDO or technology teams the right questions to ensure confidence in the organisation’s resilience, says Institute of Directors CEO Simon Arcus.
There hasn't been a lack of strange things turning up in the Ashley Madison data leak. One of the latest discoveries comes from Trend Micro, which found bogus Ashley Madison profiles that used email addresses the company created solely for collecting spam samples.
Companies often fail to hide if an email address is associated with an account on their websites, even if the nature of their business calls for this and users implicitly expect it.