---
id: "quote-tech-moving-too-quickly"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§ The Lack of Cybersecurity Expertise"]
tags: ["board-composition", "pace-of-change"]
related: ["contrarian-recruiting-cyber-directors", "concept-board-expertise-gap"]
speaker: "Anonymous Board Director"
speakers: ["Anonymous Board Director"]
sources: ["governance"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-governance"
originDay: 7
articleStem: "hbr-cl-83-boards-cybersecurity"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/04/boards-are-falling-short-on-cybersecurity"
sourceTitle: "Boards Are Falling Short on Cybersecurity"
---
# The Futility of the 'Cyber Guy' Director

## Quote

> "We don't have a lot of technologists that sit on boards. I sit on several boards. I'm the tech and cyber guy on all these boards. I'm not bashing my co-workers and co-board members. They're awesome people. But this stuff, AI and cyber, is moving so quickly. I have a hard time keeping up with it. And I know the technology, and I live in Silicon Valley."

**Speaker:** an interviewed board director based in Silicon Valley (anonymized).

## Significance

This is the human anchor for the authors' contrarian argument in [[contrarian-recruiting-cyber-directors]]: even a genuine, self-described technologist cannot keep pace with AI and cyber. It dramatizes why the [[concept-board-expertise-gap]] cannot be closed simply by recruiting one technical director — the knowledge decays faster than any individual can refresh it.