What is the Difference Between IT Risk Management and Cybersecurity?

**Executive Summary:** This article clarifies the difference between IT risk management and cybersecurity—framing IT risk as the strategic management of operational, regulatory, and infrastructure risks, while cybersecurity focuses on defending systems and responding to active threats using frameworks like NIST CSF and MITRE ATT&CK. It compares their goals, data sources, and outcomes, advocates aligning both disciplines to prioritize remediation and justify investments, and highlights SecurityScorecard’s Supply Chain Detection and Response (SCDR) as a tool to improve vendor security visibility.