Metrics should inform better decision making. “Business alignment” is spoken about frequently, but execution is challenging throughout the Gartner client base. Key risk indicators (KRIs) should have defensible causal relationships to business impacts and present leading indicators to decision makers. Gartner has developed a methodology to integrate risk and corporate performance that helps achieve these goals.

Using the Senate Testimony of former Equifax CEO Richard Smith, Gartner presents a timeline of events and a current analysis of factors that put senior non-IT executives at risk following a cybersecurity event. Learn how defensibility and corporate culture are key attributes when developing a cybersecurity program that balances the needs to protect with the needs to run your business.

Risk management leaders should optimize risk and value in a business context through the lens of key stakeholder needs. Doing so will strengthen business cases, funding requests, committee reviews and board reporting to support the achievement of business outcomes.