talking to the board: how to improve your board's cyber security literacy – uk edition
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Talking to the Board:How to Improve Your Board’s Cyber Security LiteracySeptember 16, 2015
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Today’s Presenters
Amar SinghFounder Give01Day
& Cyber Management Alliance & Interim CISO
Ray StantonExecutive Vice President, BT
Gary CheethamCISO, NFU Mutual
Paul EdonDirector of Customer Services, Tripwire
What details are the board looking for and why?
How do you engage and manage your board's expectations?
What language do you use to speak to the board?
How much emphasis do you place on compliance, risk and security in your communication?
Is there a "Golden Ticket" that gains you immediate access to budget?
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Three Key Takeaways
Consider, understand and focus on the business processes that when disrupted would get the board involved.
Encourage the board and senior executives to be trained/educated in cyber and privacy basics.
The board members are presented business risks. Integrate, not align, your risk framework and register with the same risk ecosystem.
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Three Key Takeaways
Clarity of what is important to the board, and messaging to suit.
Remaining unemotional when delivering messages, passion not emotion – it’s not personal.
Deliver the message with business context, not security or risk babble.
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Three Key Takeaways
Never miss an opportunity to get your message across.
Focus on the impacts to them in their role and prioritise.
Keep it simple and in their language – technobabble doesn’t work!
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Three Key Takeaways
Don’t try to answer the question “Are we secure?” but rather “How secure are we?”
Build and maintain your credibility with the board.
Prepare, plan and then prepare some more.
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Tripwire Product PortfolioDetecting and Responding to indicators of breach, compromise, and vulnerability
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Threat Intelligence
Tripwire Adaptive Threat Protection
Adaptive Threat
ProtectionEndpoint Intelligence
Vulnerability Intelligence
Threat Analytics
Forensics
Zero-Day Detection
Threat Response
Log & Event Intelligence
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