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Cyber risk isn’t just a technical problem—it’s a business imperative. For one Fortune 200 leader in financial and data services, the stakes were sky-high. As a global powerhouse in a high-risk industry, the CSO was seeking more than static check-the-box compliance. A modernized cyber risk program was needed that could speak the language of the business and bridge a communication gap between the CSO and the CFO.
What they achieved is a new gold standard in cyber risk management: a continuous, financially grounded program powered by X-Analytics—built not just to defend, but to drive confident decision-making and cyber resiliency at the highest levels of the organization including effective cyber risk governance boardroom reporting.
Despite extensive investments in cybersecurity and a supportive executive team, the company's cyber risk efforts faced a persistent challenge: the CFO was asking for budget clarity. Each year, cybersecurity investments were growing—but how were those dollars translating into reduced risk and benefits to the business? What was the real ROI?
Legacy cyber risk tools and static assessments couldn’t provide a clear answer. The cybersecurity team was rich in data but poor in business-contextualized insight. While the organization was benchmarking their security program using Gartner’s Activities (Security and Risk) and the Cyber Risk Institute (CRI) Profile 2.0, they weren’t able to extract strategic cyber risk guidance on an ongoing basis.
To address this challenge, the company deployed X-Analytics—a cyber risk management platform that transforms technical inputs into business-relevant outputs. In short order, it became the operational brain of their cyber risk program.
First step in the process: Orchestrating two separate risk and governance frameworks:
While both frameworks were being implemented, they lacked cohesion and financial translation, and more importantly, business context. That’s where X-Analytics delivered game-changing cyber risk orchestrated value.
The X-Analytics team combined Gartner's and CRI’s qualitative and disconnected inputs and provided a financially contextualized view of this firm’s risk exposure, ultimately measured at 0.9% of revenue. For the CFO, this value represented an inflection point. This value provided a clear, measurable baseline to compare against other operational risks.
By interconnecting Gartner’s Activities in concert with the CRI’s Profile 2.0 assessment, this Fortune 200 firm was able to build a business-contextualized view of cyber risk exposure and, more importantly, deliver a continuous understanding of risk and how mitigation actions were effective to reduce risk and build resilience.
Cybersecurity spending shifted from being an increasing cost to a source of executive confidence. Using X-Analytics, this Fortune 200 financial services leader didn’t just lower cyber risk—they made it measurable, clear, and strategic. The CFO gained business metrics to understand cybersecurity in financial terms, while the CSO found an effective approach to convey cyber risk management successes to the CFO and into the boardroom. An approach that aligns with industry cyber governance standards recommendations made by the National Association of Corporate Directors’ (NACD) for effective cyber risk governance reporting, demonstrating the power of a shared language between security teams and leadership—one that focuses on reducing risk to strengthen resilience.
This Fortune 200 success story isn’t just a milestone—it sets the standard for effective continuous cyber risk management success. It demonstrates that when organizations translate cybersecurity into financial terms, develop business-optimized, risk-reducing strategies, and communicate in clear business understandable terms, organizations can convert cybersecurity functions from being a cost center into a strategic asset for business growth.