Who’s on this one
Kayne McGladrey — Cybersecurity Risk Advisor, CISSP and Senior IEEE Member, and author of Cyber Risk is a Myth (Routledge). A former CISO who spent years as a virtual CISO for SMBs and mid-market firms, sitting in the board meetings where security gets filed under cost rather than investment. He has released 43 templates and 24 exercises from the book free at kaynemcgladrey.com/myth.
Sid Roper — VP of Customer Solutions, Compyl. 24 years in cybersecurity and GRC, spent replacing manual chaos with automated trust and scalable compliance.
Daniel Tangney — Host, GRC Radio.
Who should be in the room
- GRC and compliance managers — you maintain the register. This is about what to do with it when someone asks what it is worth.
- CISOs and security leaders — the budget conversation, and the objections finance raises before you reach the second slide.
- Anyone who has presented a risk and been told to come back next quarter.
Run of show
Forty-five minutes, no slides. A real conversation, then your questions.
- Why treating cyber risk as its own category costs you money — Kayne’s core argument, in about a minute.
- Business impact analysis: what actually generates revenue, and the dependencies nobody documented.
- Putting a number on a vulnerability that survives contact with a CFO.
- The objections finance always raises — and what answers them.
- Metrics an executive acts on, versus the ones that get ignored.
- Live Q&A — bring a risk you have been trying to get funded.
