Negotiating With The Board: Translating Active Risk Into Financial Exposure
Rapid7, Friday, March 20th, 2026
Security leaders rarely struggle to produce data. The challenge is turning that data into something the board can use to make decisions.
Walk into a board meeting with a slide showing 1,200 critical vulnerabilities and 44 internet-facing assets, and you will likely see polite acknowledgment rather than meaningful discussion. The question that follows tends to cut through quickly: what does this mean for the business?