{"id":263351,"date":"2026-06-03T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/why-execs-and-cisos-must-treat-cyber-threats-as-statecraft\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:25:11","slug":"why-execs-and-cisos-must-treat-cyber-threats-as-statecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/why-execs-and-cisos-must-treat-cyber-threats-as-statecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Execs and CISOs Must Treat Cyber Threats as Statecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/execs-cisos-must-treat-cyber\/\">Why Execs and CISOs Must Treat Cyber Threats as Statecraft<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/execs-cisos-must-treat-cyber\/\">https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/execs-cisos-must-treat-cyber\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 04:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.infosecurity-magazine.com\">www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cyber, AI and geopolitics are now inseparable, according to Bharat Thakrar, board director at ISACA\u2019s London Chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to an audience of cybersecurity leaders at Infosecurity Europe 2026, Thakrar warned that treating security as purely an IT problem is like &#8220;a turkey concluding its human caretaker is benevolent the day before Thanksgiving,\u201d \u2013 a vivid reminder that incomplete context can be catastrophic.<\/p>\n<p>Thakrar used the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment data breach as a milestone, where the wider public realized that state\u2011aligned actors could target a commercial company, leak sensitive material, proving that &#8220;private firms are geopolitical actors\u201d and can become legitimate targets for reasons far beyond finance.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that the more recent attacks against Viasat in Ukraine in 2022 and Stryker in 2026 underscored this trend.<\/p>\n<p>He also warned about growing covert foreign IT workers schemes, notably coming from North Korea, that can create insider access.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How many companies would even spot this?&#8221; He argued for revamped HR vetting, tighter access controls and pre\u2011delegated authority so executive teams can act without delay.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>ISACA\u2019s Geopolitical Preparedness and Response Framework<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>To translate that insight into action, Thakrar proposed a pragmatic four\u2011step framework he called Cyber\u00a0Geopolitical Preparedness and Response (CGPR).<\/p>\n<p>Designed to make geopolitical risk operational for boards and security teams, CGPR is built around four pillars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Assess exposure: map where you operate, critical assets, vendor dependencies and associations that could make you a target<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate readiness: test how quickly you can shift operations, relocate data, scale security operations centers (SOCs) and accelerate patching or recovery<\/li>\n<li>Plan response: define playbooks, authority lines and a war\u2011room composition that includes legal, finance, HR and operations<\/li>\n<li>Continuous monitoring: run horizon scans across threat intelligence, dark web chatter and&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/execs-cisos-must-treat-cyber\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Execs and CISOs Must Treat Cyber Threats as Statecraft https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/execs-cisos-must-treat-cyber\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-03 04:15:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.infosecurity-magazine.com\/webpage\/og\/53db4988-07d0-43a1-935b-8d1252d07f03.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,30,24],"class_list":["post-263351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-breach","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263353,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263351\/revisions\/263353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}