The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed some new guidelines last year to promote better cybersecurity governance among public companies, and one of them tries to track the cybersecurity expertise of the boards of directors of these companies. Judging from a new study conducted by MIT Sloan cybersecurity researchers and recently published in the Harvard Business Review, it might work — though it also might backfire. In this analysis for SiliconANGLE, I discuss the pros and cons of these regs.