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title: Setting Common Language When Talking to Leadership About IT Risks
description: Rick Doten, CISO of Carolina Complete Health, will discuss how best to communicate security and business risk to leadership within the organization.
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# [Setting Common Language When Talking to Leadership About IT Risks](https://www.secureworld.io/resources/common-language-talk-risk-leadership)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/resources/author/secureworld-news-team) | 8 PM Z

To be successful in presenting IT security to senior leadership, it's important it is done in ways that they can ingest, process, and understand; because ultimately, IT risk management decisions are business decisions, not technical decisions.

This session will discuss approaches to present to individual business decision makers, understanding that each has his/her own goals, incentives, currency, and biases. We will discuss three simple concepts to be defined and agreed upon by senior leadership to move forward:

1. What does success look like?  
2. What does failure look like?  
3. How do we measure these?

This session will be very conversational and interactive, so bring your questions!

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