One of the toughest challenges for business leaders is that cyber security profe

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One of the toughest challenges for business leaders is that cyber security professionals often “talk in a different language”. Some professionals refer to concepts in technical terms (e.g. intrusion prevention, firewalls, malware), while other speak in “auditspeak” (e.g. control regime, risk, business impact analysis).

While business leaders easily understand audit/business concepts they have a much harder time with technical references.

What can cyber security professionals do to help business leaders understand the true risk of security threats?

Give specific examples of what you would do to communicate more effectively with business leaders (especially C?O’s).

Explanation / Answer

The best way to make business leaders undestand the true risk of security threats is by case studies.

Cyber security professionals can give presentation and demos on the past security attacks on big companies which has resulted in huge losses for them. This will align both the parties and the business leaders can then determine the impact on thier organization due to these risks.

Also certain small meaningful examples can be taken which explain instrusion prevention and firewall concepts in layman terms. This will help business leaders in assessing the damage which these attacks can do to their organization.

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