From ‘High/Medium/Low’ to Dollars: Making Cyber Risk Legible to Your CFO
Cyble argues security teams should express cyber risk in financial terms for CFOs instead of high/medium/low ratings, citing its 2025 threat forecast results.
Cyble published guidance on cyber risk quantification, arguing qualitative high/medium/low ratings fail to convey financial exposure to executives. The piece notes that over 80% of its 2025 threat predictions, including AI-driven ransomware and supply-chain attacks, materialized as anticipated.
- Advocates translating cyber risk into dollar-based financial exposure
- Over 80% of Cyble's 2025 threat predictions materialized
- Cites AI-driven ransomware and supply-chain attacks as examples
For years, cybersecurity teams have communicated risk through labels such as “High,” “Medium,” and “Low.” Those ratings can help security teams prioritize vulnerabilities, but they often leave CFOs with a more important question unanswered: What does the risk actually mean for the business financially? That question has become harder to ignore as the threat landscape accelerates. Cyble’s 2025 threat predictions, published as the year unfolded, provide a useful illustration. More than 80% of the threats Cyble forecast—including AI-driven ransomware and complex supply-chain attacks—materialized as anticipated. It was observed that dark-web discussions about using large language models for…
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