As a CISO, you need to talk to your board members in their language.

Here are 2 hacks to do that: Speak in terms of financial cyber risk quantification.

Don’t tell them, “I deployed the Prolexic solution to mitigate DDoS attack on 121.1.2.3/24 network.” That won’t make an impact on them.

Tell them, “I'm going to save potentially up to $5 million in an outage by spending $200,000 on a device to mitigate ransomware attacks.” Compare your organization with competitors.

Share with them what similar companies are doing.

If you're a big bank, you need to look at other big banks:

• How many security staff versus the entire number of employees do they have?
• What is their overall IT security budget?
• What is the objective third-party rating that shows how they’re doing?

So, in order to bridge the communication gap with your board members, CISOs/CSOs need to:

• talk about the financial impact
• measure your organization against competitors

What would you add to this?

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