Crafting and Communicating Your Cybersecurity Strategy for Board Buy-In
Sound cybersecurity practices and risk management are a differentiator for many non-regulated companies and are table stakes for highly regulated organizations. Enterprise customers are demanding and driving the conversation around cybersecurity.
They are demanding to understand how their vendors could potentially impact their customers and their re
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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
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I had a client whose maturity scores didn’t improve over a 3-year period. If data was all that was presented this could easily be interpreted as a failure of progress. But when they focused the narrative around the successful integration of the multiple acquisitions they had over the past few years, the focus shifted to the successful expansion of
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Highlight the top risk areas requiring the most attention and how those risks can be remediated. Be prepared to rank priorities based on risk, knowing that a solution to every need may not be possible.