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Security Strategy

Articles from the SimpleRisk blog tagged Security Strategy: governance, risk management, and compliance insights.

CISO presenting IT governance and business strategy alignment to enterprise leadership

IT Governance and Business Strategy: A CISO Playbook

With the right game plan, CISOs can turn IT governance from a perceived constraint into a driver of growth, resilience, and executive confidence. This nine-step playbook shows how to align security-centric governance with real business strategy.
ROI of Security Investment

The Boardroom Battle: Justifying Security Spend

For many CISOs, the hardest part of the job can be the business conversation that happens long before anything goes wrong. Learn the language of the boardroom to win over executive decision makers and justify security spending.

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From Chaos to Control: Centralize Your GRC

If Excel were enough for risk management, the GRC industry wouldn’t exist. Here’s why relying on spreadsheets and generic SaaS tools can actually increase risk, and how centralization restores control.

Probability x Impact = Risk Formula

How to Conduct a Proper Cybersecurity Risk Analysis

Risk analysis and risk evaluation aren’t interchangeable terms. They’re distinct stages within the broader process of risk assessment. This blog breaks down the differences, why they matter in cybersecurity, and how to properly analyze risks using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

An AI mapping a policy to multiple controls

What AI Can (and Can't) Do for Control Mapping

Struggling to match your policies to hundreds (or thousands) of controls? Learn how we combined AI, old-school keyword analysis, and smart engineering in SimpleRisk to turn a months-long task into minutes.

Streamlining an information security program using the templates created by SimpleRisk

Free Security Policy Templates from SimpleRisk

Building an information security program from scratch can be overwhelming, but SimpleRisk is here to help. Discover how our free, ready-to-use templates can simplify the process and get your security program up and running quickly.

A cybersecurity analyst is reviewing a vendor risk assessment on a laptop screen

Third-Party Risk Lessons from the Rock Face

Choosing the right third-party vendors is a lot like picking a reliable climbing partner—technical skills matter, but alignment in risk mindset is just as crucial. Learn how a harrowing descent from a multi-pitch climb revealed key lessons in risk management, trust, and the value of security certifications.

Josh Sokol and Michael Rasmussen presenting on How to Model Security Maturity in Your Organization

Webinar Recap: Modeling Your Security Maturity

Check out this recap of the webinar, "How to Model Security Maturity in Your Organization," co-hosted by SimpleRisk and GRC 20/20. This webinar helped equip participants with a clear roadmap on how to establish a security maturity baseline within their own organizations, create a desired state of maturity, and identify where gaps exist in order to achieve their objectives.

Role Playing and Risk Management

What do Role Playing and Risk Management have in common?

Curious about how Table Top Exercises (TTX) can improve your organization's security incident response? Discover the valuable lessons learned from a first-hand TTX experience and why it's an essential tool for identifying gaps and enhancing preparedness.