When Coventry University ran its MBA students through a simulated cyber attack, few of them knew what to do, and most expected IT professionals to take the lead.
“You put a team in a room and tell them, ‘You’ve been attacked, what do you do?’ And usually everyone turns to the techie guy,” says Anitha Chinnaswamy, course director for Coventry’s Cyber Security Management MBA.
This is exactly the mentality Ms Chinnaswamy and others want to change. As cyber attacks become a daily part of corporate life, everyone on the management team needs to understand how to prevent them. “Security now lies in both technology and policy, process and people,” she says.