Sample Cybersecurity Performance Dashboard

In brief: This tool provides various dashboards for boards to use when considering the organization’s cyber-risk management plan. Using the dashboards, boards can create goals and improvement plans for the organization’s cybersecurity strategies. This tool originally appeared in the publication, Cyber-Risk Oversight 2020: Key Principals and Practical Guidance for Corporate Boards.

This resource can help your board to

• identify key cybersecurity risks to the organization,

• evaluate the organization’s performance in responding to cyber risks, and

• provide oversight of the corporation’s overall cybersecurity strategy.

Most relevant audiences: Risk committee chairs, risk committee members, and CISOs

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The report includes ten specific recommendations for compensation committees to consider when evaluating their compensation philosophies. It also provides practical tools, such as sample compensation committee charters, a compensation committee assessment, and guidance on executive employment contracts.