With the increasing threats, why would a company layoff portions of their cyber security team? Do you feel that this will hinder the effectiveness of day-to-day operations? This is coming from someone who is not in cyber and want to get feedback from professionals in the field.
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I feel that security teams (and tech teams) do an awful job of explaining their value, their wins and their operational efficiency in terms that work for business people.
Our inability to communicate in a way that non techies understand hurts us.
Absolutely.
There are ways to spin it to execs and decision makers that show how Cyber actually results in a net positive. But very few people are able to articulate that properly in a board room.
Ascensions attack last night comes to mind. If you can establish and convey a cost metric and how an attack/temporary loss of IT infrastructure effects revenue a lot of C-suiters would change their tune rather quickly.
The end-all-be-all answer for this however will be firms like McKenzie and Deloitte recognizing the value of cybersecurity staff and infrastructure because for some reason the only people execs will listed to are management consultants.
If you wait for Deloitte to come up w a framework to justify security ....then you are screwed.
Deloitte makes money by saying your group sucks....we can do it better.
Once they are in the door - the battle is lost