When you write a cyber security report for your pentest, vulnerability assessment or information security audit it is essential to communicate the results of your work in a clear and informative way. If you are writing for a board meeting, management review, or for another internal audience, your report should be concisely written, clearly organized, and aesthetically pleasing. This cheat sheet gives tips for writing a powerful report that is informative and understandable.
CISOs are charged with communicating threats and vulnerabilities to stakeholders with varying degrees of technical expertise, but understanding the scope of your findings isn’t enough to be effective. Your client isn’t paying you to display your brilliance, but to educate them about what you’ve discovered and how it can be addressed or prevented from happening again in the future.
Create a cybersecurity report that focuses on the areas that are most important to your target audience. Use the Docs feature of ClickUp to identify the trends and metrics that will be most relevant to your target audience and write a succinct summary.
A well-written cybersecurity board report will give you the assurance that your business is actively mitigating risk to ensure its success. It’s not only about identifying risks, but rather illustrating how your efforts are developing over time to demonstrate the long-term worth of your program. With UpGuard making an effective board report that is designed to fulfill the primary reporting requirements of your executive leadership team is just one click away. It can be immediately exported as editable PowerPoint slides to save more time (and stress). Find out more about how you can effectively prepare and present your cybersecurity board reports today.
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