Executive Consensus

Better Executive Communication and Expectation Alignment

There is a fundamental communication and expectation gap between cybersecurity and executive leadership.

Today, the C-Suite and Board often don’t know:

  • What they’re actually getting for their cybersecurity investment

  • What “good” protection looks like

  • What the right roadmap and budget should be

As a result, they struggle to demonstrate fiduciary responsibility — and often question the opportunity cost of cybersecurity spend.

CISOs face the opposite problem:

  • Proving meaningful benefit from existing investment

  • Gaining and maintaining buy-in for future roadmaps, resources, and budgets

  • Being reduced to a “compliance CISO,” despite needing to show alignment to frameworks

  • Carrying liability for breaches regardless of funding levels

  • Demonstrating progress, efficiency, and accountability across teams

Cyberseconomics solves these twin challenges by enabling Executive Consensus — a shared, quantified understanding of outcomes, expectations, and funding between the CISO, C-Suite, and Board.

Establishing Consensus Between the CISO, C-Suite, and Board

A. Set Outcome Expectations — and Build Plans to Deliver Them

HQBE translates the jargon of “security work already done” into clear, visual narratives of cybersecurity performance vs. cyber risk exposure — instantly revealing the true value of existing investment.

Executives select from visualized outcome choices, each tied to:

  • A strategic roadmap

  • Tactical action plans

  • Resource and budget requirements

The CISO executes the chosen outcome with full alignment and authority.

If threats, business conditions, or budgets change, HQBE instantly remaps expected outcomes — ensuring expectations shift fairly and transparently.

This protects the CISO from being held liable for risks they were not funded to manage.

B. Manage Execution, Analyze Progress, and Report with Confidence

HQBE supercharges cybersecurity program oversight:

  • Gain complete visibility into resources, owners, deliverables, and milestones

  • Track KPIs, performance, and progress in real time

  • Identify top performers, under-performers, duplication of effort, and economies of scale

  • Maintain a full audit trail of who did what, where, when, how, and why

Produce tailored reports for:

  • CEO & Board

  • CFO, COO, CIO, Legal, Risk, Compliance, Audit

  • Operational teams, technical teams, and control owners

This ensures the CISO maintains resource accountability, security asset visibility, and full alignment with the chosen executive outcomes.

Getting Started Is Easy

Cyberseconomics technology and services deliver value within days to weeks — not months.

Our approach is designed to right-size, adapt, and scale to your needs:

  • Quickly highlight strengths

  • Prioritize areas needing attention

  • Support you with a process that feels familiar — like a controls assessment — but delivers orders of magnitude more value

Cyberseconomics HQBE SaaS

HQBE builds a unified model of your business, threats, controls, resources, and risks — producing a powerful, structured view of your cybersecurity reality, from executive outcomes down to control-level capability.

We incorporated critical context missing from today’s assessments, frameworks, and technologies — and delivered it in a SaaS platform that acts as your time-saving analytics engine.

HQBE SaaS is the foundation of true Executive Consensus.

Have questions or want to see HQBE in action?

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Communicate with the C-Suite in Business Terms

Translate the jargon of ‘doing security’ into real-world protection and cyber risk exposure narratives that actually resonate with Executives.

Model Protection Outcomes

Enable Executives to choose 'what good looks like' to them so they can easily show fiduciary duty and defend the opportunity cost of the security budget.

Correlate Budgets to Outcomes

To ensure the CISO isn't liable for cyber risk they weren't funded to effectively handle.

Guide, Track, and Optimize Delivery

With a comprehensive suite of metrics, assessments, and analytics tools; and centralize the visibility and accountability of security deliverables and assets.