Cybersecurity Questions Every C-Suite Needs to Ask

**Executive summary:** This whitepaper for C-suite leaders presents nine foundational cybersecurity questions to shift organizations from reactive defense to proactive protection, emphasizing ransomware as the primary near-term threat and recommending 24×7 monitoring, adequate staffing or managed detection and response, a CISO where appropriate, prioritized budgeting toward integrated solutions with expert support, comprehensive data lifecycle management, effective security awareness training, and a tested incident response capability.