5 Tips for Successfully Navigating C-Suite and Board Communication as a CISO

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.

The simpler you can convey it, the better. Too often, cybersecurity professionals get mired in technical jargon only to lose their audience. “Be clear, unambiguous, and direct,” Noaman advises. “If you’re up front and say exactly what you need to do and put in terms of the why, you don’t have to explain the technical things, because now everyone ge

Both Easterly and Zhora stress the importance of communicating cyber risks in a language that resonates with business decision-makers. This enables informed decision-making when allocating resources to cybersecurity initiatives. By aligning cybersecurity efforts with business goals, organizations can view cybersecurity not merely as a constraint, b

“So when a CISO or anybody comes into a board room and says, ‘if we don’t do this, this is going to happen,’ it makes them all feel anxious and they start to close down their thought processes around it.”