How CISOs Can Effectively Communicate Cyber-Risk

This advisory discusses the common challenge CISOs face in communicating cyber-risk to organizational leadership and recommends using a 'proximity resilience graph'—a two-axis visualization of Resilience (security posture) versus Attack Proximity (threat context) with quadrants and labeled risk impacts—to more clearly show movement in risk, highlight specific impacts (operational, brand, financial, competitive, legal), and improve board-level engagement and investment decisions.