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Rebecca Herold14 posts 1 comments

Rebecca has 25+ years of IT, information security & privacy experience, is CEO of The Privacy Professor® consultancy & President of SIMBUS, LLC Information Security, Privacy & Compliance cloud services. Rebecca has authored 19 books and contributed to hundreds of other books & articles. Rebecca led the NIST Smart Grid Privacy Subgroup for 7 years, is co-founder of IEEE P1912, and is on many advisory boards. Rebecca was Adjunct Professor for Norwich University MSISA program for 9 years, has received numerous awards & keynoted on 5 continents. Rebecca appears regularly on KCWI23 morning show & hosts VoiceAmerica radio show “Data Security & Privacy with the Privacy Professor.” Rebecca is based in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.

Cyber Security

Paying Down the Cybersecurity Debt

Rebecca Herold 0
The toughest part of being an information security leader is justifying for security spend. Companies that do not spend enough start to build up cybersecurity debt. And when a serious breach happens, they find themselves in a situation where they have to pay down that massive debt, including interest.