Business Problems We Solve: What CEOs Should Talk About When They Talk About Cybersecurity

The most basic layperson definition of cybersecurity is this: the balance of maximum authorized systems access with the greatest amount of denial of unauthorized access. Even if you're technically inclined, the details of cybersecurity get dizzyingly technical after that. 

Face it: if you're running a business (or looking to invest in one) you aren't focused on technical details.

Let's do some bench-marking. Here's what CEO's talk about when they talk about cybersecurity; see if this is what you talk about:

• Cybercriminals are more sophisticated than the Board; what do we do about that
• There's a lack of appropriate controls -- typically cybersecurity is a rear-view mirror
• Our critical assets are out there & accessible (e.g., product details or design leaks); too many leaders playing catch-up

Nearly all CEOs need to feel in control so they defer cybersecurity to IT experts, but are their priorities your priorities? Are they overspending? What's your return on investment -- and by the way if your answer is "We weren't hacked last week!" then your IT department may not have explained cybersecurity risk management to you.

The details of cybersecurity infrastructure, risk management policies, and so on are complex. As a leader you are not supposed to be an expert in those things. Instead, you need to determine your goals, priorities, and strategies, and then allocate resources to IT to develop a cybersecurity risk management process that scales relative to your direction.

Pythia Cyber's experts will simplify this process with you so that you have aligned your goals, allocated resources, and created a scalable cybersecurity risk management process.

As a CEO or Board member, here are the two things you should talk about when you talk about cybersecurity-related topics:

• Our cybersecurity risk management process enables us to provide maximum assurance to customers, employees, and business partners that their business with us is secure
• Our spend on cybersecurity is creating return on investment in terms of protection as well as uptime, both of which enable us to do what we're in business to do.

Ask us how we get you to the point where you will say: I guess it's that simple.