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Cyber Risk Appetite: Defining and Understanding Risk in the Modern Enterprise

January 16, 2020

Managing risk is a balancing act for organizations of all sizes and disciplines. While some organizations take on too much risk, others arguably do not take on enough. Complicating this equation is the emergence of cyber as one of the most impactful sources of risk in the modern enterprise. In fact, cyber security is now increasingly reviewed by corporate boards of directors and often discussed with financial analysts who see cyber security risk as an imminent and paramount business risk. Because the consequences of cyber security failures can be damaging to business revenues and brand reputation, CEOs have lost their positions as a result of data breaches and inept preparation and planning.

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IronNet Cybersecurity

Every day, cyber threats grow more sophisticated, intrusive, disruptive and costly. And as recent headlines have made clear, these attacks are increasingly the work of nation-states and sophisticated criminal gangs. Countless billions of dollars worth of corporate secrets, private customer information and brand reputations have already been lost, or are at risk. And every day, the gap between these rapidly evolving threats and traditional cybersecurity approaches to defend against them grows wider. IronNet Cybersecurity is uniquely positioned to fill this gap. IronNet has assembled a leadership team with unmatched experience with cyber threats, including former heads of and top advisors to the National Security Agency, the National Counterterrorism Center, U.S. Cyber Command, Army Intelligence and more. IronNet offers an integrated, end-to-end approach to cybersecurity that offers breakthrough, patent-pending technology, providing real-time threat assessment and updates, complex beha

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Cyber Risk Appetite: Defining and Understanding Risk in the Modern Enterprise