Align cybersecurity strategy with business goals

The strategic importance of cybersecurity is not always widely understood. This is both a challenge and an opportunity. When management and executives understand the role of cybersecurity in achieving their goals, much-needed buy-in, support and investments follow.

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your organization makes informed cybersecurity decisions

a cybersecurity strategy that works for your organization

agility by adapting your cybersecurity to evolving business priorities

Is your cybersecurity strategy aligned with your business goals? There are major benefits to be gained by aligning them. 

Different functions within an organization vary in their understanding of cybersecurity and do not always speak the same language. This can make it challenging to get buy-in for cybersecurity investment, to gain trust and influence within the organization, and to ensure sufficient focus on cybersecurity, crucially in the planning stages of projects.

Our experienced specialists take the time to understand your business and combine this with our industry experience to take a multifaceted approach to support you, covering everything from business and technical aspects to constantly changing regulations and threats. From digitalization and decarbonisation to safety and sustainability, we address the cyber risks and implications not just to data and assets, but to your business.

We are fluent in cyber, business and engineering. We translate cybersecurity so it is understood by all levels of your organization, from management and executive to operational. We help you demonstrate the value of cybersecurity with data and insights.

By helping your colleagues understand that cybersecurity is crucial for the implementation of your business strategy, we help them reach their goals. This can be connecting cybersecurity with innovation, minimized downtime, or the bottom line. It can be demonstrating a culture of leadership on risk management and compliance that gives your organization a competitive edge.

Together, let’s build your capabilities to plan long term, implement in stages, optimize constantly and stay agile enough to respond to the latest regulation, trend, or business priority. This way, your cybersecurity strategy will improve resilience and enable your business’s success.

  • Peter Hellström
  • Head of Cybersecurity Management Consulting
  • DNV Cyber

Every organization is different, and what works for one won’t work for another. Cybersecurity should be tailored to meet your specific needs: building on your organization’s culture, assets, and capabilities, avoiding unnecessary investments. 

Cybersecurity strategies often don’t consider differences in culture, technology, regulations, cost levels, number of employees and organizational maturity. We tailor cybersecurity strategy, solutions and implementation to meet your needs. We help monitor and implement cybersecurity throughout the lifecycle of projects, working with you to continuously define the acceptable risk level to find the optimal balance between security and productivity.