Resilience is an investment. Inaction is a liability.

Published on May 28, 2026

VAB member Loraine Phillips has written for the VAB community a new text with thoughts on how boards and company leadership teams can improve their approaches to foresight thinking in terms of cyber resilience. In this text, she highlights key areas where action needs to be taken: facing the inevitability of risk, overcoming the myth of matters being too technical and defining strategies for prevention.

We invite you to download the full article attached to this post to explore Loraine’s insights in greater depth, and encourage you to share your thoughts with the community.

Loraine_Phillips_VABNews_Feb2026_print.pdf
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