July 16, 2025 2 Minute Read

• Discover how Trustwave's new Executive Business Reviews (EBRs) transform routine updates into powerful, strategic discussions.
• Learn how EBRs shift the focus from raw data to real-world risk reduction, operational resilience, and cost efficiency for your organization.
• See how these quarterly 90-minute meetings provide customized threat intelligence and actionable recommendations to fortify your security posture.
• Obtain information on your cybersecurity investments to share with key stakeholders.

Trustwave is making Executive Business Reviews (EBR) available to its client base. EBRs are a methodology designed to deepen Trustwave's already strong client relationships by helping clients stay informed as to their current security status, regional and sector-related threats, security costs and optimization opportunities.

The EBR is typically a quarterly meeting that the Trustwave team holds with a CISO or CIO-level executive to thoroughly review everything Trustwave has discovered and accomplished during the previous period.

These reviews evolved from routine operational updates to strategic dialogues designed to keep a client's executive leadership informed about the risks they face. Key to the EBRs is providing the information in an ‘Executive-Ready’ format that can be shared with senior stakeholders that do not have a cybersecurity background.

The core objectives of an EBR include:

• Executive Engagement: Ensuring that everyone necessary is actively involved in the cybersecurity conversation.
• Value-Centric Discussions: Shifting the focus from purely technical metrics (number of alerts, data processed) to the overarching risk reduction, operational resilience, and cost efficiency that is being delivered.
• Addressing Executive-Level Priorities: Incorporating discussions on topics that directly impact business outcomes. For example, for many organizations, cloud spending represents a significant portion of their IT budget. Demonstrating how security measures can optimize cloud resource utilization and prevent runaway costs resonates strongly with financial decision-makers.
• Offensive Security Insights: For clients utilizing penetration testing and red teaming services, EBRs provide a platform to discuss the vulnerabilities identified, the remediation efforts undertaken (and their governance), and the resulting improvement in the organization's security posture. This provides tangible evidence that these proactive security measures are yielding concrete results and enhancing overall resilience.

How an EBR Flows

The starting point is a service performance overview. This is a high-level look at our service performance whether it be Managed Security Services (MSS) or Offensive Security (penetration testing, red teaming, etc.) This will cover the volume of security events, observed vulnerabilities, etc. trends, mitigation approaches, improvement programs, cybersecurity governance effectiveness, etc.

Trustwave then looks at costs and ROI. We observe movement in the cost of providing cybersecurity and options for reducing cost or performing ROI calculations on new or evolving capability.

To give clients a broad view of what they are facing from a threat standpoint, Trustwave team members deliver a custom threat intel update that covers the current geopolitical environment and that is tailored to the client's industry sector, and geographic region.

The information shared includes:

• Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)

• Threat actor profiles

• Recommendations for mitigation

The EBR also looks at client projects, for example, incorporating AI or another new technology, into key business processes. Trustwave will bring in a subject matter expert to explain what to watch out for, how to secure the deployment and best practices.

An EBR is also an opportunity for a client to develop deep insights into the organization’s desired security posture and discuss executive-led initiatives and strategic programs.

By combining service performance analysis, threat intelligence, and proactive planning, EBRs ensure that clients remain informed, empowered, and supported in navigating an ever-evolving cyber threat landscape. These sessions help align cybersecurity with broader business goals, fostering a stronger partnership and delivering measurable value.

Contact Trustwave here to find out more about the EBR program.

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