The executive leadership in corporate organizations is increasingly challenged with managing cyber-risks, as an important part of wider business risk management. Cyber-risks are complex, with the threat landscape evolving, including digital infrastructure issues such as trust in networked supply chains, and emerging technologies. Moreover, engaging organizational leadership to assess for risk management is also difficult. This paper reports on a scenario-driven, workshop-based study undertaken with executive leadership to assess for cybersecurity and cyber-risk perception related to preparation for, and response to, potential incidents. The study involves leadership members at a large public-private organization. Our approach utilizes scenarios, which are structured in their design to explore and analyse aspects of business risk, risk ownership, technological complexity, and uncertainty faced by an organizational leadership. The method offers a means to engage with leadership at real-world organizations, capturing capacity and insights to manage business risks due to cyberattacks.@en

The decisions involved in choosing technology components for systems are poorly understood. This is especially so where the choices pertain to system security and countering the threat of cybersecurity attack. Although common in some commercial products, secure hardware chips provide security functions such as authentication, secure execution and integrity validation on system start, and are increasingly deemed to have a role in devices across sectors, such as IoT devices, autonomous vehicle systems and critical infrastructure components. To understand the decisions and opinions regarding the adoption of secure hardware, we conducted 23 semi-structured interviews with senior decision-makers from companies spanning a range of sectors, sizes and supply-chain roles. Our results consider the business propositional drivers, barriers and economic factors that influence the adoption decisions. Understanding these would help those seeking to influence the adoption process, whether as a business decision, or as a trade or national strategy. @en