LogicGate, a risk and compliance startup, has confirmed a data breach to its customers without making a public statement. An unauthorized third party obtained credentials to the company's cloud storage servers, which are hosted by Amazon Web Services, LogicGate wrote in an email.

Chief financial officers are increasingly taking on the additional duties of overseeing the quality of data delivered to CEOs and boards, either themselves or with chief data officers. "The CFO needs to stand by the insights they offer to support critical business decisions, so they might as well own it," notes Diarmuid Cotter, formerly with IBM.

Security teams need a "healthy mix of organic growth and hiring" to evolve and deal with factors out of their control, writes Mohit Kalra, Adobe's director of cloud operations security. This commentary deals with the challenges managers face trying to "skate where the puck's going, not where it's been" in the words of hockey legend Wayne Gretzky.

Email security programs can catch most phishing threats before they wind up in your employees' in-boxes, writes Ben Canner, who outlines defensive best practices for enterprises in this commentary. One must-have is an incident response plan, which should be practiced "as you would practice a fire drill in the analog world," Canner writes.

Vahid Heydari, who leads the cybersecurity courses at Staffordshire University in London, says focused training is gaining popularity because students know "as soon as they get a cybersecurity degree there is a huge pool of jobs to apply for." Heydari also notes that cybersecurity training can be useful in broader disciplines, such as software development.