Struggling to get executive alignment when your security case sounds technical instead of financial? This lesson shows you how to speak in finance-native English—quantifying cost avoidance and loss exposure—to win trust, budget, and measurable risk reduction. You’ll get clear definitions, board-ready wording patterns, mini-scenarios with model sentences, and targeted exercises to test your phrasing. Finish able to present controls as capital allocation decisions, with per‑dollar risk reduction, timing, and tail loss framed precisely.