{"id":285695,"date":"2026-07-04T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/cybersecurity-lands-on-the-cfos-desk\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:30:08","slug":"cybersecurity-lands-on-the-cfos-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/cybersecurity-lands-on-the-cfos-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity lands on the CFO\u2019s desk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cybersecurity lands on the CFO\u2019s desk<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/2026\/07\/05\/business\/sunday-business-it\/cybersecurity-lands-on-the-cfos-desk\/2378378<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-04 12:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.manilatimes.net<\/a><\/p>\n

FOR YEARS, when a cybersecurity question reached the chief financial officer (CFO), the answer was simple: talk to the IT department. That answer is gone. Sunil Golecha, finance chief for Japan and Asia-Pacific at Palo Alto Networks, says nearly every CFO he now meets ranks cybersecurity among the top three issues they bring to the board. It is the shift Bernadette Nacario, the company\u2019s country manager for the Philippines, raised at a recent media briefing. Cybersecurity used to be viewed as a technical cost, she said. Now it sits with the board and the C-suite because a breach affects revenue, customer trust, business continuity and enterprise value.<\/p>\n

That framing is no longer just a vendor\u2019s pitch. On June 22, the cybersecurity agencies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States \u2014 the group often called the Five Eyes \u2014 issued a joint statement warning that frontier artificial intelligence (AI), the most advanced models of their kind, will reshape both attack and defense within months. Their language was blunt. Cyber risk \u201ccan no longer be treated as a purely technical issue,\u201d they wrote. \u201cThis is a core business risk and leadership responsibility.\u201d The wording closely echoes Nacario\u2019s point, but this time it came from governments rather than a security company.<\/p>\n

There is already a clock on it. Philippa \u201cPip\u201d Cogswell, managing partner for Unit 42 in Japan and Asia-Pacific, the threat intelligence arm of Palo Alto Networks, says the fastest intrusions now move from initial compromise to data exfiltration \u2014 the point at which stolen data leaves the network \u2014 in about 72 minutes. That is faster than most companies can respond, which is why cybersecurity can no longer remain below board level.<\/p>\n

So what changes when the CFO joins the conversation? Golecha says the questions come quickly. How do I measure the return on security investment? And how do I tell the…<\/p>\n

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