On this episode of The Smart IT Podcast, I welcomed Gerald Caponera, GM Risk Products at ThreatConnect, to the show where we chatted about the value of IT to the business by pivoting to the challenges IT faces in communicating what it does it as opposed to its intrinsic value. That value is all work enabling innovative technology to work in a way that powers digital transformation. How that rapid rate of change in the business environment is driven by IT’s ability to introduce new capabilities. It is not just business that is innovative; IT is as well. We discussed several insightful areas, including:

• There is a dichotomy at play: as it gets easier for the business to use tech, IT does an excellent job of masking the backend complexity. 
• How risk compounded in one area of the business can impact risk in another area. 
• Exploring the types of tradeoffs organizations must make between business timelines and security considerations. 
• Using common risk language communicated across various teams to help support strategic and operational decisions for deploying new capabilities into the field. 
• Decision tradeoffs between time to value and security, speed versus cost, quality versus cost. New and improved skill of balancing cost, schedule, and capabilities. Quality takes time, otherwise you can introduce new risks. 
• Need traceability for our decisions that can be defended. Must communicate this in a way that everyone understands. Making smart decisions faster with better collaboration. Managing risk better to feed in decision making process. 
• IT moves so fast, cyber must continue to adapt and security professionals must become risk practitioners. Money is an effective way to standardize the language of impact and tradeoffs as better linkage to the business. 

Parting thoughts on future professional skill development is too always keep learning. So many options to learn and improve soft skills like communication, teaming, and collaboration. Always be learning something new.

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