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I'm a CISO but I'm getting no love from our CFO. We have had some lovely trysts in the past, I fondly remember wooing him with our Identity Management business case. Oh how he swooned with the return on investment calculations. Recently he has cooled to me and I just can't get his attention. Dear Matty what can I do to recapure his affections and clinch that lunch date?

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Dear Desperate and Dateless,

Your CFO is cooling to you with the cooling economic climate. Present to him some examples of how security can enable and support business initiatives. Good examples could include:
- virtualisation security standard development - enabled virtualisation to be used on a new project resulting in capital expenditure reduction.
- establishing a VPN - now an outsourcer in India can access systems from the internet securely without WAN costs, saving ongoing operational expenditure
Make sure there is a theme of enabling cap e and op ex cost reductions and the CFO will be courting you!

Good Luck from Dear Matty.