Why read this white paper?
It’s an anecdote retold in a thousand and one security-conference keynote addresses and cited in a million and one articles about cybersecurity: The chief information security officer (CISO) shows up to brief the Board of Directors about the state of the company’s cybersecurity, and he or she breaks out a big black binder brimming with baffling metrics. Eyes glaze over as pie chart after pie chart of key risk indicators (KRIs) are reviewed, and people start checking their smartphones as page after page of scatter-plot charts are presented.
By the time the CISO gets to the appendix full of colorful histograms, the story goes, they’ve lost the audience—and quite possibly lost the confidence of the Board as well.
Being able to tell a meaningful, actionable, data-driven story about your company’s cybersecurity posture is one of the most important skills a CISO can develop. But this white paper isn’t exactly about that. Instead, this paper aims to help security-program stakeholders and influencers—board members, C-suite executives and senior business-line managers—become more discerning and demanding consumers of security data so that they can more effectively contribute to their organization’s response to cyber risk.
As more companies adopt a risk-based approach to cybersecurity, it’s critical that stakeholders ask for and get the data they need for strategic decision-making.
We need to talk.
Digital transformation has forced an entire generation of non-IT business leaders to become conversational, if not fluent, in the language of information technology. The relentless pace of digital transformation over the last 20 years—the advent of e-commerce, the sudden ubiquity of mobile apps and the routine integration of artificial intelligence into business processes—has permanently torn down the walls between “the business line” and IT departments. Product development, manufacturing processes, sales and service delivery, and customer retention—every last element of business is now deeply intertwined with and reliant on IT and the interpretation of data. Close collaboration between non-IT leaders and their IT peers has become commonplace as they work to drive the business toward achieving its goals.
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How to develop a data-driven, risk-based cybersecurity program
