Cyber Security Toolkit for Boards
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How to communicate more effectively with board members to improve cyber security decision making.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Information security
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How to communicate more effectively with board members to improve cyber security decision making for organisational planning, review and training. NCSC guidance is advisory and should be applied to the organisation's own risks and obligations.
Contents
- Engaging with Boards to improve the management of cyber security risk
- Introduction: why engaging with Boards matters
- Note:
- Understanding your audience
- Understand how ALL Boards work
- Understand how YOUR Board works (and who is on it)
- Cyber is a risk - talk about it as such
- Engage outside of Board meetings
- Answer the most important questions first
- Expect to be asked about the big picture
- Engaging strategically
- Own the problem
- Provide a holistic view
- Advise rather than educate
- Be open to external scrutiny
- Communicating clearly
- Source links
Source and licence
National Cyber Security Centre
AttributionNational Cyber Security Centre, “Cyber Security Toolkit for Boards” (7 October 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesAdapted 16 September 2026: converted the official HTML article into neutral text-only DOCX and PDF editions. Preserved article headings, paragraphs, lists and plain-text source-link destinations; normalized web whitespace and typographic punctuation; omitted site navigation, topic and download cards, images, logos, scripts, styles and page furniture.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026