Board Confidence
A 0–100 metric tracking how the board of directors feels about your security program. Moves on disclosed incidents, audit performance, regulator interaction, and visible spend discipline. Drops below 20 for three consecutive quarters and you are fired.
Where this term fits in a CISO program
Board Confidence is one of 35 cybersecurity strategy concepts CISO Game models live. Board Confidence appears throughout the simulation — in the risk register, the investment catalog, and the mechanics reference — so a player encounters the concept in context rather than as an isolated definition.
See it in play
The fastest way to internalize Board Confidence is to watch it move during a 5-year program. Start a free CISO Game run to see how this concept interacts with budget, hiring, and incident response across 20 quarters of strategic play.
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