Need to Sway Your CFO on a Big Project? Leave Jargon at the Door.

by Andrea VanSeveren | May 14, 2021 | InfoSec Strategies

Reading Time: 2 minutes With the rise of compliance mandates like the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) or the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), many IT leaders find themselves needing to influence organizational decisions around major...

IT Leaders: Here’s How Your CFO Thinks

by Andrea VanSeveren | May 13, 2021 | InfoSec Strategies

Reading Time: 4 minutes When IT and cybersecurity executives sit across the table from business executives, the two groups think about organizational issues differently. This frequently leads to problems and disconnects when business-critical expenditures...

IT Leaders: Here’s the #1 Way to Influence Your CFO

by Andrea VanSeveren | May 12, 2021 | InfoSec Strategies

Reading Time: 2 minutes All too often there’s a disconnect between technology leaders and business leaders. We tend to talk different languages—bits, bytes and acronyms on one side, ROI and balance sheets on the other. What frequently happens is that...

Battle of the Cyber Standards – Which Will Thrive, Survive or Take a Dive?

by Andrea VanSeveren | Apr 17, 2021 | Government

Reading Time: 2 minutes A wise man once said that the only thing worse than too little information security guidance is too much information security guidance. With the US Department of Defense (DoD)’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) now...

What Do We REALLY Need to Do to Get CMMC Level 1 Certified?

by Andrea VanSeveren | Apr 16, 2021 | Government

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) standard from the US Department of Defense (DoD) will impact hundreds of thousands of organizations over the next few years—and not just within the defense industrial base (DIB)....