Master Risk Quantification and make better Risk decisions
For CISOs and Risk Professionals
Anfal Shaikh - CISO of the Year from CYBERX GLOBAL
Your current efforts feel like an endless cycle of patching with no measurable reduction in risk.
You want a better way to understand the risk your vulnerabilities represent, and you want deeper insights into how threat actors can move through your network.
Stakeholders are asking questions.
You need a way to communicate risk that everyone can understand based on current vulnerabilities and industry trends. You need to demonstrate a clear understanding of the risk and how to mitigate the most likely attacks. But most importantly, you need to quantify the potential impact because that is what ultimately drives decisions.
You need a strategy that is feasible, easy to implement and can expand and grow as needed.
You need a way to measure what's important and have meaningful metrics designed to measure real risk.
Expertise is something that comes with time and experience. You need to radically increase your internal capability without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per year on top level staff. This is where training comes in, but not the typical "canned" training, training that is targeted, customized and hands-on facilitation of the actual work.
Top CISOs and Risk Managers are able to demonstrate success. When you use analysis as the foundation for risk related decisions you are on solid ground. Having a framework that is applicable across your entire organization makes you program scaleable. By selecting meaningful measures and metrics to track progress you'll be able to measurably reduce risk.
To be successful you need to be able to effectively communicate with stakeholders, that means speaking in terms they understand. When you properly align your program you begin to speak to their priorities. By discussing risks and outcomes in operational and financial terms you'll get the support you need.
The threat landscape is constantly changing and that's why top Risk Professionals are always learning. They gain deeper insights into not only what's happening now but what's most likely to happen in 3 to 6 months. They are forward thinking and better able to build resilience for their companies. They understand the value of internal capabilities rather than relying on black-box solutions or industry best practices.
When you know which risks across your organization are most likely to lead to catastrophic losses, data exposure, or data exfiltration you are able to have an entirely different conversation about risk and impact. That's a game changer.
Effective risk management is more than tracking operational efforts, it's about enabling your organization to seize technological advantages because you're confident in your ability to estimate the risk vs reward.
Stop guessing when it comes to risk because you're just patching and applying best practices hoping nothing really bad ever happens.
Stop trending cyber activities because this doesn't have any real impact on security, it's just a way to justify the hours being billed.
Stop struggling to prioritize risks and resources because you don't have a way to effectively differentiate between two "moderate" risks.
Stop worrying about how secure your network is because we all know that best practices alone aren't enough.
Start making decisions based on analysis and facts using your vulnerability data and the most likely attack path through your network.
Start forecasting cyber events based on the current state of your network so that you can proactively block threat actors and measurably reduce risk.
Start effectively prioritizing "moderate" risks based on operational and financial impacts, and (maybe for the first time) demonstrate real risk reduction.
Start having confidence that your efforts are measurably reducing risk, and that you've made it far more difficult for threat actors to disrupt your business.
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