Ann Sherry: Cyber hackers are better organised than we are

Ann Sherry says directors need to be better educated about cyber risk. (Image: Mark Russell/IoD)

Tue, 09 May 2023

The former chief executive of Westpac New Zealand says unless companies strengthen their cyber security, they will be picked off by hackers one by one.“Hackers are better organised than we are,” Ann Sherry told attendees in a speech at the Institute of Directors conference last Friday.Sherry was the CEO of the Bank of Melbourne – a subsidiary of Westpac – from 2000 to 2002 before being Westpac NZ’s CEO from 2002 to 2007.Among her current roles, she’s the chancellor of the Queensland University of Technology a...

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