White Box Cybersecurity For Non-Techies

You know business. You know your market. You have mastered a field such as finance, biology, furniture manufacturing, human services, auto repair, logistics, medicine, law, agriculture, or restaurant management. You are a servant leader, a hedge fund platform manager, someone who "learned by doing." You might be able to sell insurance to people who hate insurance. You can recite poetry, write essays, derive Bayes' Theorem, calculate derivative prices. You have a smart phone or a fitness tracker. You drive a hybrid or electric vehicle. You have multiple streaming services.

You are not a techie.

Our series on white box cybersecurity for techies has two parts, here and here. You should read them even though you are not a techie.

This post is for you. It is about white box cybersecurity for non-techies.

White box cybersecurity is the result of alignment between operational process and strategic cybersecurity.

The organization you lead or help manage is looking for growth. It will encounter customers and be present wherever data are collected. Data can be monetized; you do this legally through loyalty programs, discounts, mailing lists, etc. Unscrupulous parties use your data for, well, unscrupulous purposes -- ransomware attacks, credit card forgery, draining grandma's bank account, etc. 

You have built it, and they will come to steal it. 

Because your company exists where you collect data, your company's extended platform needs to be secure. A secure customer relationship is a competitive advantage. You innovate and sell with the value proposition that this is a secure process. You cannot innovate or sell when there is no trust in your company.

As a non-techie leader you need to set a budget for security. You need to get confirmation from your techies that what you and your leadership value is secure. 

Pop quiz: can you honestly say that you adequately understand what your tech people are telling you about your cybersecurity process?

Ask us how we can work with you and your techies to create your competitive advantage, control spend, and maximize protection of what you value -- your company's reputation and your customer's data -- through white box cybersecurity. Simple. Real. Effective.

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