The CISO’s Guide to Risk-First Budgeting
A Two-Part Cyber Resilience Series
ABOUT
Developing a cybersecurity program goes beyond technology—it requires quantifying risk, making informed investment decisions, and effectively communicating priorities to leadership. This two-part series equips enterprise security leaders with practical tools to assess risk, justify strategic investments, and elevate cybersecurity priorities, strengthening both their budget and the organization’s overall resilience.
See session descriptions below.
WHEN
Monday, October 20, 2025 | 11am-12pm ET
Session 1 - Quantified Cyber Risk: Budgeting for Material Loss
Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 11am-12pm ET
Session 2 - Cyber Budgeting: Collaboration from Start to Board
NEXT STEPS
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Please contact Ingrid Smith, ingridsmith@cyberresilience.com, with questions.
Budgeting for Material Loss
Monday, October 20, 2025 | 11am-12pm ET
Large enterprises face a complex mix of perils, potential losses, and an evolving set of security controls. In this session, we’ll walk through practical approaches to balance these factors, helping you justify cybersecurity spend with confidence. Learn to align investments with risk exposure, anticipate board-level questions, and build a defensible budget.
Collaboration from Start to Board
Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 11am-12pm ET
Your influence on the board starts long before your formal presentation. This session explores strategies to collaborate with your executive team from day one, align on priorities, and ensure you’re prepared when the board inevitably asks about cybersecurity.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Rob Brown | Senior Director of Cyber Resilience
Rob Brown brings 25+ years of experience serving organizations from startups to government agencies and Fortune 100 companies as a senior strategic planner and decision science advisor. His support spans multiple commercial verticals including electronics manufacturing, telecommunications systems, petroleum exploration, pharmaceutical product development, and aerospace and other industrial manufacturing. Not only is he the author of Business Case Analysis with R - Simulation Tutorials to Support Complex Business Decisions (2018), he contributed as a technical editor to Richard Seiersen’s book The Metrics Manifesto: Confronting Security with Data (2022) and as an author of an appendix chapter to Douglas Hubbard’s and Richard Seiersen’s book How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk (2nd Edition, 2023).
Chris Wheeler | Chief Information Security Officer
Chris Wheeler is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with a diverse background in military service and the private sector. He currently serves as the Chief Information Security Officer at Resilience. Previously, Wheeler spent nearly five years as a vice president at Morgan Stanley on the Global Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT), where he managed the Senior Analyst Team and SOAR program. His earlier experience includes leading an analytic engineering team at Arbor Networks and serving as a US Naval Officer, qualified in both Surface and Information Warfare. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy.
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