Executive Risk Reporting and Communication

Overview

Security leaders need more than alerts — they need clarity. To support leadership visibility and informed decision-making, I developed a structured cyber risk reporting model that translates complex technical data into meaningful business insights.

My Role

I created a risk dashboard concept tailored for executive audiences, focusing on priority risks, business impact, and visual clarity. This framework helped contextualize technical threats in a language aligned with business operations and outcomes.

Key Contributions

• Designed a Risk Dashboard: Built a simple dashboard template showing top risks, color-coded severity, trending changes, and mitigation status.

• Linked Risk to Business Impact: Mapped security risks to potential consequences like downtime, financial loss, or regulatory penalties.

• Introduced Risk Quantification Concepts: Integrated basic FAIR (Factor Analysis of Information Risk) ideas to help estimate risk in terms of impact and likelihood.

• Supported Executive Conversations: Developed briefing materials and simplified summaries that could be used in leadership meetings or internal reviews.

What It Demonstrates

• Executive-level communication of technical risk

• Business alignment in security thinking

• Visual and strategic storytelling

• Understanding of metrics that matter to decision-makers

Tools & Concepts Used

• Excel/Google Sheets for dashboard prototype

• FAIR principles (risk = probability x impact)

• Business-aligned terminology: customer trust, revenue disruption, regulatory exposure

• Heatmaps and priority rankings for visual clarity