Steve Kenniston, Cybersecurity Portfolio Marketing and John Scimone, President and Chief Security Officer of Dell Technologies explore how CISOs can win in the boardroom by communicating cybersecurity, risk, and resilience in the language that matters most to leadership. Their core insight is refreshingly clear: boards don’t govern technology, they govern strategic risk, so security leaders who lead with technical metrics often lose the room. Steve and John show how the conversation shifts from simply preventing attacks to consequence management and recovery speed, focusing on how quickly an organization can bounce back and resume operations after an incident. The discussion also digs into human and insider risk, from unwitting employees who fall for phishing to malicious insiders and the emerging challenge of software agent abuse. Watch to see how security leaders can move from educating the board to actively influencing and collaborating with it.
00:00 Introduction
00:24 Why boards care about risk, not technology
01:03 From technology-centric to business-centric leadership
02:08 Recovery and resilience in risk management
03:13 Human risk and the rise of agent-related threats
04:16 How CISOs can influence the board more effectively
05:07 Closing
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