Cybersecurity at machine speed: What boards need to know now

AI-enabled cyber threats are accelerating faster than many governance processes were designed to absorb.

Join us as we explore what audit committees, boards and C-suite leaders need to understand to strengthen cyber resilience, modernize oversight and build greater trust in an environment of continuous disruption.

Designed for board members and senior executives, this Thursday, October 15, 2026, episode of Better Questions for Boards will provide timely insights and practical questions for engaging management on complex and fast-moving boardroom issues.

Featuring perspectives from the FBI, Fortune 500 executives and board members, the discussion will examine how the threat landscape is changing, where governance expectations are rising, and what questions leaders should be asking to help close the gap between emerging risks and organizational readiness. Topics will include the following:

• View from the FBI: The current and future cyber threat landscape. Hear how AI-enabled cyber exploitation is changing attacker capabilities; why speed of detection and response matters more than ever; and how boards can engage more effectively with management and law enforcement before, during and after a cyber event.
• Board and CIO perspectives on governing cyber risk at machine speed. Explore how leading organizations are adapting cybersecurity practices for a world of frontier AI, behavior-based threats, third-party exposure and faster-moving vulnerabilities — and what audit committees should ask about preparedness, response, data protection and resilience.
• Better questions for oversight. Be equipped with the key questions directors should be asking management teams at the next board and audit committee meeting.

This CPE-eligible webcast will be 60 minutes. The discussion will be co-moderated by Patrick Niemann and Jennifer Lee from Ernst & Young LLP. Panelists will include:

• Prat Bhatt, Former Chief Accounting Officer, Cisco; Board Member and Audit Committee Chair, RingCentral and Seagate Technology; Governing Board Member, Center for Audit Quality
  
• Jamie Engstrom, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Information Services, Caterpillar, Inc., and Board Member, Ameren
• Kristin Grimes, Chief of the Cyber Law Unit, FBI
• Brett Leatherman, Assistant Director, Cyber Division, FBI