ESG Research asked security professionals working at critical infrastructure organizations to rate their management team on their willingness to invest in and support cyber security initiatives. Nearly one-fourth of respondents rated executive management support for cyber security as “fair” or “poor” 38% of respondents working at telecommunications companies rated their executive management’s cyber security support as ‘fair’ or ‘poor’ Many executives believe a security incident would result in an inconvenience and slap on the wrist rather than a major service outage. Security professionals need better communications skills and tools to translate nerdy technospeak into more pedestrian language.”]