In a groundbreaking development, CISOs have finally cracked the esoteric dialect of the boardroom: a language spoken fluently in revenue projections and budgetary concerns, where risk is calculated not in potential data breaches but in potential vacation homes foregone.

Armed with a new lexicon that includes terms like ‘profit margins’ and ‘shareholder value’, CISOs now enter board meetings prepared to turn their cybersecurity spreadsheets into colorful charts depicting exactly how hackers might abscond with executive bonuses.

Having mastered this fiscal dialect, many CISOs find their presentations have a newfound ability to induce nodding approval from CEOs who are just thrilled to have learned the difference between a data lake and a revenue stream.