Post by @trianglesmith

Cybersecurity isn’t just firewalls, code, and threat intel. Communication might be the most underrated skill in the entire field. Here’s why. Risk assessments aren’t just technical exercises. Your job isn’t done when you find the vulnerability. It’s done when you translate that vulnerability into something leadership can actually act on. A CVSS score means nothing to a CFO. What means something is “this could shut down operations for three days and cost us six figures.” Most of the people making the final call on whether a risk gets fixed, funded, or accepted have zero technical background. That’s not a knock on them, it’s just reality. Your job as a GRC or security professional is to bridge that gap. If you can’t do that, the smartest technical finding in the world sits in a report nobody reads. Same goes for working with non-technical teams day to day. HR, legal, finance, ops, none of them care about the mechanics of a phishing attack. They care about what to look out for and what to do if something feels off. If your training and communication is full of jargon, it doesn’t stick. If it’s clear and relatable, people actually change behavior.