Struggling to turn technical status notes into a crisp, board-ready NIST CSF narrative? In this lesson, you’ll learn to contrast current vs. target profiles with parallel, quantified, and benchmarked language that earns trust, clarifies risk, and supports funding decisions. Expect concise explanations, executive-grade model phrases, pillar-by-pillar examples, and quick exercises to practice the five-part micro-structure. Finish able to produce investor-ready sentences that align to NIST tiers, show measurable movement, and include a clear next step.