Here are five of the more popular misperceptions, accompanied by clarifications from the experts listed below, each of whom is featured in Trustero’s “Everything Compliance” interview series.

David Carter, Senior Manager of Cyber Risk Assurance at Delta Dental, a group of 39 independent companies that provide coverage to some 68 million people

Liam Collins, Co-Lead of the Trust Practice at Armanino LLP, one of the nation’s 25 largest independent accounting and business consulting firms

Bert Friedman, Head of Compliance at business banking startup Nearside (formerly known as Hatch)

Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst of IT-Harvest and creator of the annual Security Yearbook and the new Analyst Dashboard, each of which tracks more than 3,000 cybersecurity vendors