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MicrosoftHow are you presenting CSPM and CNAPP insights to your executive leadership?
Hi everyone,
I'm a Cloud Security Specialist at Microsoft, working closely with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and I wanted to start a conversation with the community — partly out of curiosity, but also to learn from your real-world experiences.
When it comes to reporting cloud security posture to your executive leadership (CISO, CTO, or broader security/tech leadership), how are you presenting insights from CSPM, CNAPP, or Defender for Containers?
Specifically, how do you communicate findings such as:
- Misconfigurations
- Vulnerabilities
- Risk exposure across your cloud environments?
Are you using:
- Power BI dashboards to centralize and visualize the data?
- Manual Excel reports?
- The native Defender for Cloud portal?
- Or even exploring Microsoft Fabric for more advanced reporting scenarios?
I’d love to hear how you’re turning technical insights into executive-level narratives. Do you follow a particular structure, reporting cadence, or set of best practices?
Looking forward to hearing how others in the community are approaching this challenge — and how you're bridging the gap between cloud security and business strategy.
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We do not present this level of detail. We wish to bring it to the Outcome & Key Result level, specifically looking to support this OKR: Fewer (prevented) Data Breaches/avoided costs. The Key Performance Metrics, (KPIs) we'd like to see in PowerBI so we can see global view or by each country, e.g. is Germany reporting more or less than the US or China? And in that dashbord, use the metrics against an average savings to show "We estimate we saved X MEU in this data span" as the OKR.
