All businesses face active threats, such as cryptomining, phishing, trojans, and ransomware. You are aware that every organization has its own degree of risk, but can you honestly say you know yours? According to Bret Laughlin, founder of Ostrich Cyber-Risk, chief information security officers (CISOs) struggle to explain to leadership why they need to invest in security initiatives, incident counts, firewall hits, and other technical jargon that isn’t the right language for effective communication.
“It’s this lack of a common language that is a major cause for the chronic under-security of security programs,” he says. Ostrich’s new product, Birdseye, a cyber risk management application, is a simple cybersecurity assessment and reporting application enabling organizations to quickly identify these risks and vulnerabilities while bridging the communication gap between CISOs and key decision-makers.
Birdseye was the culmination of over a decade of rigorous testing and development, the blending of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) principles, industry-leading cyber program assessment frameworks, and practical technical controls measurements—all leading to the…
