Leaders have a significant responsibility in personally understanding and managing cybersecurity as a key risk area. They must learn how to proactively protect their organizations and customers from the ever-increasing threat of cyberattacks. I felt honored and humbled when a chapter in Brazil of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), a global network of young chief executives with approximately 24,000 members in more than 130 countries, invited me to fly all the way to South America to speak on the topic of roles and responsibilities to their local group of business leaders.