A recent article in CSO magazine references the Cybersecurity Disclosure Act (CDA) of 2015 (proposed last December) and the wide-reaching impact the passing of that law might have. Not least of which is the central role that company leadership must take toward data security risk management.

The article begins with the following statement: “Laws frequently change the way that we do business.” Given the movement toward the passage of the CDA, business leaders who ignore data security best practices and compliance requirements won’t likely be business leaders for very long.