From Alerts to Action: Mean Time to Detect and Contain Phrasing in Board-Ready Narratives

Are your security updates still bragging about alert volume instead of proving risk reduction? In this lesson, you’ll learn to translate MTTD and MTTC into board-ready, thresholded statements that link directly to business impact, budget, and trust. You’ll find clear explanations, model phrases, real-world examples, and concise exercises to practice the five-sentence arc and run a quality checklist. Finish with investor-ready language that aligns to NIST CSF, FAIR ranges, and SEC-style disclosure—minimal words, maximum signal.

Leading vs. Lagging in Cyber Stories: Indicator Wording That Lands with Executives

Executives tune out metrics that don’t show cause, effect, and business impact. In this lesson, you’ll learn to label indicators as leading or lagging, word them with a five-part, board-ready template, and calibrate thresholds that tie directly to risk reduction and budget decisions. You’ll find clear explanations, concise real-world examples, and short exercises to lock in the model phrases—so your next deck reads like a clean, investor-ready risk narrative.