Data Insecurity and Leader Integrity

December 3, 2025

Data Insecurity and Leader Integrity

Wilma Neal | 2021

Abstract

Leaders and their businesses are struggling to manage information and data securely with integrity. Old technology and poorly trained workers are a few of the contributors. Another is cybercriminals -they are negatively affecting leaders’ management of customer information and data. This manuscript explains the tactics leaders can incorporate to address mishandling customers’ information, data while maintaining their integrity when cybercriminals steal or attack their business systems. Information and data insecurity occur due to vulnerable computer hardware and software technology and a lack of administration information practices becoming weaknesses for hackers. The discussion research involves statistics from the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) that include the weaknesses and vulnerabilities found in companies.¹ A description of necessary governance requirements that leaders should incorporate in their operations involves policies, regulations, and laws within the cyber industry. Also, the article exams organization access, failures, maintenance techniques, and ethics to manage information and data. Likewise, an assessment of leadership moral character traits, principles, relationship intelligence, and methods to develop adequate educational measurements to build workers that work with consumer data and information securely. The document identifies biblical principles that leaders must exhibit, and workers need to use with their education and training skills to formulate behavior and reinforce standards of integrity that will benefit their organization, increase their work productivity and consumer confidence.

Keywords: leader, integrity, cybercriminals, governance, ethics, data, information, vulnerability, education, technology, character, principles

¹Verizon. Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Verizon, 2020.

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