CIMA launches 2025 Cybersecurity Tool to help finance teams navigate risk, response, and remediation
9 October 2025, Warsaw – The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) has launched the latest version of its CGMA Cybersecurity Tool, designed to help finance professionals tackle the growing threat of cyberattacks through robust risk management, response, and remediation strategies.
As cyberattacks become more frequent, more sophisticated and costly – the average cost of a data breach is now a hefty $4.4 million according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025: The AI Oversight Gap – the updated tool reflects the need for organisations and their finance teams to play a role in strengthening cyber resilience.
Featuring actionable steps to assess and respond to cybersecurity risk, it provides finance professionals with guidance on:
- How to protect sensitive data
- Influencing software investment decisions to prevent, detect and neutralise cyber threats
- Risk management and governance structures
- Incident response and recovery
- Evaluating cyber security insurance
Andrew Harding, FCMA, CGMA, Chief Executive of CIMA said:
“Cybersecurity is a key conversation in the world’s boardrooms – it’s about building resilience, ensuring that businesses can stand up to the challenges and meet the opportunities of a digital-first world. It’s a competitive edge.
He added: “Finance professionals have a deep understanding of risk, compliance and reporting, and financial planning. They’re uniquely positioned to help their organisations build resilience against cyber threats. This latest edition of the tool equips them with insight and strategies to manage risks and respond effectively to incidents.”
About The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Founded in 1919, The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants® (CIMA®) is the world’s leading and largest professional body of management accountants. CIMA is a founding body of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants; its members and candidates operate in more than 150 countries and territories, working at the heart of business — in industry, commerce, the public sector, and not-for-profit organisations. CIMA works closely with employers and sponsors leading-edge research, constantly updating its professional qualification and professional experience requirements to ensure it remains the employer’s choice when recruiting financially trained business leaders.
About the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, AICPA, and CIMA
The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association) advances the reputation, employability, and quality of CPAs, CGMA designation holders, and accounting and financial professionals globally. Founded in 2017 by the AICPA and CIMA, it represents 580,000 AICPA and CIMA members, candidates, and registrants in more than 150 countries and territories, advocating for the public interest and business sustainability on current and emerging issues.
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