Dive Brief:

• Only four in 10 security leaders can answer the question, “how secure, or at risk, are we?” according to a Tenable-commissioned Forrester report. The survey collected responses from more than 840 security and business executives in April. 
• Eighty-five percent of “business-aligned” security leaders say they are able to translate cybersecurity return on investment (ROI) and business performance to their stakeholders. One-quarter of leaders consider themselves more reactive and siloed from their peers.
• Business-aligned leaders are nearly five-times more likely to collaborate with stakeholders on cost, performance and risk reductions than more reactive leaders. Business-aligned leaders are also seven-times more likely to automate risk management objectives “to vulnerability prioritization practices,” according to the report.

Dive Insight:

Reactive leaders aren’t confident in their cybersecurity tool reservoir: the technology, processes and data used to identify and remediate risk. Their business-aligned counterparts believe they’re highly equipped. 

The discrepancy between security leaders can define a security program, resilience of a…

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