Security leaders are constantly dealing with a mix of changing threat environments, rapidly evolving technology and ever-increasing operational challenges- but they regularly point to one challenge that they find the most difficult – communicating to leadership outside security.
Getting buy-in from the board or senior leadership can be critical to funding initiative or changing business practices – but in order to succeed, objectives, progress and outcomes need to be framed in metrics that have business and risk perspectives outside of the security sphere. Adding to this is an increasing interest in security and risk matters of senior management due to changes in compliance and liability obligations, and an effective communication paradigm becomes a necessity.
Watch Proofpoint’s cybersecurity experts as they draw upon collective decades of experience in communicating with senior leadership and boards and help you develop effective metrics that matter to modern boards and senior leadership.