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## Segment 7 — governance

## Article 83 — a083

# Jeffrey Proudfoot

## Profile

Co-author of the source article *"Boards Are Falling Short on Cybersecurity"* (HBR, 2026). Professor in the **Computer Information Systems** department at **Bentley University** and a research affiliate at [[entity-cams]] (Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan). His research focuses on organizational cybersecurity topics — including regulations, compliance, executive leadership, and board governance.

## Role in the source

One of the two named authors and cited voices of the article; co-author with [[entity-stuart-madnick]]. The authors conducted the interviews behind the source's anonymized quotes and cite their own governance research.

## Attributed contributions in this vault

- Co-authored the central metaphor in [[quote-technological-sirens-song]].
- Joint author of the article's thesis and every claim, including [[claim-cybercrime-losses-increasing]], [[claim-regulators-poorly-positioned]], and [[claim-ai-revolutionizes-threats]].
- Co-originator of both frameworks, [[framework-board-cyber-engagement]] and [[framework-ai-risk-oversight]].

## Enrichment reference

Canonical profile: Bentley University faculty page / MIT CAMS researcher profile. His peer-reviewed work (Proudfoot et al., 2023) supplies the board-expertise statistics underpinning [[concept-board-expertise-gap]].