{"id":208997,"date":"2026-05-05T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/the-real-gap-between-cybersecurity-and-finance\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:10:10","slug":"the-real-gap-between-cybersecurity-and-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/the-real-gap-between-cybersecurity-and-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"The real gap between cybersecurity and finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The real gap between cybersecurity and finance<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cfodive.com\/news\/the-real-gap-between-cybersecurity-and-finance\/819225\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-05 10:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.cfodive.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n

Brian Blakley, is the chief information security officer at Bellini Capital,\u00a0a Tampa, Florida-based venture capital and private equity firm. Views are the author\u2019s own.<\/p>\n

As a chief information security officer inside an investment firm, I sit closer to the financial side of conversations than most people in my role.
\nThe CFO\u2019s seat is firmly established at the senior management table. With CISOs, that\u2019s not a given. They\u2019re often pulled in late \u2014 after decisions are made or once something has already gone sideways. Even when both leaders are in the room, they\u2019re not always solving the same problem.
\nThe interaction is typically situational and transactional \u2014 more reactive than intentional. It surfaces in moments of friction, not as a steady partnership. Both are managing enterprise risk, but not in the same language. That disconnect isn\u2019t just operational. It\u2019s a balance sheet problem.
\nWhen alignment does happen, it\u2019s usually under pressure. Something goes wrong \u2014 a ransomware attack, a failed audit, a board-level escalation.
\nSuddenly, the conversation shifts from technical detail to business reality: what the revenue impact is, how long systems will be down and what the cost will ultimately be.<\/p>\n

Decisions made in the middle of a crisis are rarely optimal. They\u2019re reactive, expensive and constrained by whatever options remain. Yet that is still when most organizations finally try to connect finance and cybersecurity.
\nThe core problem
\nCFOs and CISOs are highly capable. That\u2019s not the issue. The disconnect is simpler and more persistent than most want to admit: they are managing the same enterprise risk through entirely different lenses.
\nCISOs think in terms of threats, vulnerabilities and controls. CFOs think in terms of capital allocation, financial performance and enterprise value. Both are managing the same risk, but in different languages.
\nIt is common for a CISO to present technically accurate risk data that is not actionable to the finance function \u2014\u00a0not because it isn\u2019t important, but because it isn\u2019t translated into business impact.
\nWithout that translation layer, the conversation defaults to metrics that feel meaningful but rarely drive decisions: vulnerabilities patched, systems compliant and threats detected. They are operationally useful, but financially incomplete.
\nCompliance doesn\u2019t close the gap either. It creates a baseline, not protection \u2014 and certainly not resilience. Too often, there is an assumption that compliant means secure, and secure means resilient. Those assumptions break quickly when mapped to actual financial exposure.
\nClosing the gap
\nThe shift required is simple: stop asking technical questions first and start asking business ones. Which parts of the business generate revenue, and what happens if they stop? What are the most likely scenarios that could materially hurt us, and what would they cost? How fast can we recover where it matters most, and what does that downtime translate to in financial terms?<\/p>\n

The same applies to how organizations invest and validate risk decisions. Are they investing in the right places or just spending? What assumptions about security have never actually been tested? And when something goes wrong, how does it ultimately surface in areas such as financial reporting, disclosure, regulation and investor confidence?
\nWhen the CFO\u2013CISO relationship works, neither side becomes the other. Instead, risk is translated into shared terms both can act on.
\nThe CISO\u2019s role is not just to manage threats, but to translate them into business consequences. The CFO\u2019s role is not just to manage cost, but to understand where cyber risk can materially affect the business.
\nClosing the gap requires better translation, better questions and a shared view of risk.
\nIn practice, that means cyber risk is framed in terms of operational disruption and financial exposure, not control gaps; scenarios are prioritized by business impact, not technical severity; and trade-offs are made explicitly and together, rather than in separate security and finance silos.
\nSuccess is measured in outcomes: reduced business disruption, not more tools or more controls.
\nThat is when cybersecurity stops being treated as cost and starts functioning as part of financial strategy.<\/p>\n

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