Traditional heat maps and color-coded risk ratings struggle to justify cybersecurity investments. These approaches fail to answer what incidents actually cost or which projects deliver real value. When a recent manufacturing ransomware victim lost $425 million in remediation, lost sales and delayed digital transformation - 6% of annual revenue - traditional risk frameworks couldn't predict or prevent it.

Cyber risk quantification transforms security into financial terms using the same methods insurance companies apply to property loss. Industry attractiveness, vulnerability management and detection capabilities combine to produce dollar estimates that answer critical questions: Can the company afford this incident? Which security project delivers the greatest value? What does technical debt cost in terms of real money?

In this session, Donovan Tindill, director of OT cybersecurity at DeNexus, will share insights on:

• Techniques that add dollar consequences to vulnerability scores for smarter decisions about what to patch first;
• Insurance strategies that reveal when policy limits fall short of potential losses;
• Ways to show executives how security investments reduce financial risk over multiple years.