Security is a tough sell, both from the inside (Security Officer) and outside (Security Vendor) points of view. The "failure to communicate" is often cited as one of the reasons:

"I wonder how much of the inability to secure sufficient funding and management buy-in is due to the approach of the security professionals themselves"

asks Andrew (through Rob)

One thing that could help is to improve the delivery method. Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki (to name a few) are proponents of the visual delivery style, making great use of images to amplify delivered messages. Could this style improve the chances of communicating effectively security to business?

I am sure most will agree on which of the following presentation slides is most likely to bore the audience to death?

So, why not make your presentation a bit more colourful? A bit more visual? More concise? As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said:

“Perfection is achieved not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing left to take away”.

So, is it possible or indeed necessary to communicate all those complex security issues in a very simple form? Or would it be too simplistic?

Here is a couple of examples. Dragos Lungu used a very visual "emotional" style to present on E-Banking Web Application Security and so did we in Introducing Cronto Authentication Platform.

What do you think? What style do you use? Can you share your presentation? Could we build together a slide deck that could help everyone?

If you would like to share your presentation, I have setup a "securityDeck" group on Slideshare. If you upload your presentation there and join "securityDeck" group, you will be able to share your presentation with the group, hence making it easy to identify our slides collection from general presentations on security-related topics.

To share the presentation with the group, once you are a member, choose "Send this to group" from the list of options on the right side of the presentation (when viewing it).