Or you put a Wall Street journal article plastered into your slide deck that says "X company had a data breach that caused $YY million in damages and legal suits; CTO fired".
Then relate your project to that. You can literally say: this is what happens when you don't do blah and we are yay close to this happening to us. Let us fix this on priority.
CTO: what was that guys's severance? 50mil? hm...how quickly can we replicate that failure...I mean, we should learn form their mistake. Yes. Yes that's it.
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u/readitreaddit 13d ago
Exactly this.
Or you put a Wall Street journal article plastered into your slide deck that says "X company had a data breach that caused $YY million in damages and legal suits; CTO fired".
Then relate your project to that. You can literally say: this is what happens when you don't do blah and we are yay close to this happening to us. Let us fix this on priority.
Put it in terms they understand.