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Board Cyber Resilience: Metrics That Drive Governance

🔒 Boards need concise, business-focused cyber metrics that translate technical activity into measurable resilience. The article argues that traditional SOC metrics (patch counts, blocked phishing attempts) are poor indicators of business impact and recommends focusing on financial impact, governance, operational resilience, and strategic readiness. It highlights concrete measures — average cost per incident, downtime cost per minute, MTTR, MTTD, regulatory violations, third-party risk, and residual risk — and urges boards to choose 1–2 metrics per category, set reporting cadence, and iterate until metrics drive oversight.

The Cybersecurity Perception Gap: Executive vs. Ops

🔍 The Bitdefender 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment highlights a widening perception gap between executives and operational security teams. While 93% of surveyed cybersecurity and IT professionals report confidence in managing an expanding attack surface, just 45% of C-level leaders describe themselves as "very confident" versus 19% of mid-level managers. Without improved reporting, shared visibility and stronger cross-level communication, this divide risks underinvestment and misaligned priorities that can create critical blind spots.