Security leaders often talk about risk. CFOs hear cost, trade-offs, timing, probability, and whether the decision can be defended to the CEO or the board.
In this episode of The Blind Spot, Jason Lee sits down with Chris Carter, a CFO turned CISO, on what finance actually hears when cybersecurity asks for budget. They get into why vulnerabilities do not move a funding conversation on their own, how to translate cyber risk into business consequence, why CFOs fund clarity before anxiety, and how AI compounds old debt across identity, data governance, security, and process.
About the host
Jason Lee is Managing Director at Z Cyber. For more than 20 years he has worked the part most people skip past: what happens after the risk is visible, across infrastructure, AI, and GRC.
About the guest
Chris Carter is a cybersecurity leader with a background that spans finance, IT, and security. He began his career in finance, worked his way to the CFO seat, then moved into IT and cybersecurity, eventually serving as a CISO. His work sits at the intersection of cyber risk and business decision-making.
About Z Cyber
Z Cyber is your security operating partner, running your security and compliance program from risk discovery through remediation.
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