5 Tips to Help CISOs Survive (And Thrive) in the Boardroom

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.

To determine how you can best tailor your message to your audience, it’s key to understand whether cost or speed is the main driver for your organization. If available, the company’s annual report can help you identify which is the main driver. I personally invested a lot of time in lunch discussions with people like the CFO, CTO, CIO, CEO, and CMO

As Tim Chase, Global Field CISO, mentioned in his recent blog, one of the most common pitfalls security leaders face when presenting to a board is failure to tailor your security message to your audience.