Membership Meeting 03/25/2026
Chapter Business Meeting Slides: TBD
Speaker Slides: TBD
Topic: Decrypting the Cost of Cyber Risk: How CIFER Quantifies Cybersecurity as Financial Exposure
Cybersecurity is chronically underfunded not because leaders don’t care, but because its financial impact has remained largely invisible. CIFER—the Cybersecurity Impact & Financial Estimation of Risk system—was developed to close that gap. Built on 19 critical risk, threat, and mitigation variables, CIFER translates technical cybersecurity conditions into a quantified financial loss estimate, allowing organizations to understand their true exposure in dollars rather than abstractions. This session will outline why traditional approaches fall short, how quantified cyber risk changes executive decision-making, and why SMEs, insurers, and even enterprises can benefit from financial-based risk modeling in an era of escalating cyber threats.
Speaker: Oleksandr Godzilevsky, RAP Consulting LLC
Mr. Oleksandr (Alex) Godzilevsky is a seasoned Intelligence and Cyberspace professional with more than 24 years of experience across the Department of Defense (DoD), the Intelligence Community (IC), and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM). His career spans strategic and tactical planning, mission management, intelligence and language analysis, special mission unit support, and full-spectrum cyberspace operations.
He has over 14 years of hands-on expertise in analysis, reporting, OPLAN development, tasking, and signals intelligence, as well as deep involvement in Program, Planning, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) across multiple national security directorates. Mr. Godzilevsky played a key role in shaping the Cryptologic Cyber Strategy for NSA/CSS, represented the DoD at the NATO Cyber Security Summit, and served as a technical mentor to the Dutch Defense Cyber Command.
He holds an MBA from the University of Maryland; a Master of Science in Management and a Bachelor of Science in Slavic Languages and Culture from Excelsior College; and is a Distinguished Graduate of the Defense Language Institute. He also maintains certifications including PMP, JCOPC, CMMI, and is a Fellow of MIT’s Seminar XXI program.
