3 Tips to Maximize Cybersecurity Value

Delivering maximum value is a momentous challenge for cybersecurity organizations. It takes a decisive effort to organize and prioritize the proper goals that are meaningful to the business, and establish operational excellence to deliver effectiveness and efficiency. But running a good risk program that manages the defensive posture by addressing internal vulnerabilities is not enough. There are external factors that have a profound impact on the likelihood of attack and business factors that matter to the executive suite which could represent a competitive advantage to the corporate bottom line.

Here are my 3 tips to strategically enhance a cybersecurity team’s long-term value-proposition to the organization.

It comes down to three tiers of progress. Build, Compare, and Compete.
First, we must build a sustainably effective, comprehensive, and highly efficient cybersecurity capability. This is the most important step that every cybersecurity leader works towards on a daily basis.