What CEOs Don't Know About Cybersecurity: A new study hints at how often cyberthreats aren't communicated to the boss.

Forbes Magazine: Being the chief executive has its privileges. And one of them may be a blissful ignorance of your company's data breach risks.

According to a study to be released Tuesday by the privacy-focused Ponemon Institute, companies' chief executives tend to value cybersecurity just as--if not more--highly than their executive colleagues. But ... the CEOs interviewed in Ponemon's survey seemed especially unconcerned about cybercrime as a source of data breaches. While 31% named stolen PCs or thumb drives as a source of data loss, only 3% cited malicious hackers as the top threat for their company's data security--about a fifth as many as the lower level employees who cited cybercriminals as the most important threat.

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