Privacy risk represents a unique challenge driven by the volume and type of data an organization captures and retains. The takeaway for directors: be familiar with the key components of data privacy and prepared to ask the right questions. Directors should position themselves to participate in boardroom discussions with executive teams and the company’s cyber and data privacy professionals regarding data governance and information security matters as regulatory scrutiny, the risk of cyberattacks and continuously escalating consumer demands for privacy protections.

In this issue of Board Perspectives, we provide eight topics relevant to the boardroom conversation around data privacy.