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...

MSPs – Here’s How to Choose Good Customers and Avoid the “Wildcards”

by Andrea VanSeveren | May 11, 2021 | Third Party Risk Management

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s hard enough for outsourcers to choose the right Managed Service Provider (MSP). But how do MSPs go about finding the right customers? To inform the MSP industry on everything from customers to trends to standards, a recent...

What is MSP Verify and Why Do I (as an MSP or Outsourcer) Care?

by Andrea VanSeveren | May 10, 2021 | Third Party Risk Management

Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’re shopping for an MSP, what do you have to go on besides promotional copy, seat-of-the-pants research and maybe some peer recommendations? Is there an objective way to evaluate an MSP’s technical capabilities, business...