Don’t waste your executive leadership team’s time. They usually want to know if you need them to act, so don’t be shy—include a call to action. In my experience, you will be more successful if you have built a trusted relationship and keep cybersecurity simple and understandable for them.

Explain that cybersecurity means more than data protection. In the Harvard Business Review article 7 Pressing Cybersecurity Questions Boards Need to Ask, authors Dr. Keri Pearlson and Nelson Novaes Neto wrote that many board members think cybersecurity is still about protecting data, which was true many years ago. However, now that digital process