# security-comms

Translates technical security findings and incident write-ups into tailored updates for executives, engineers, legal, and customers.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 328 installs · ★ 435
- Author: briiirussell
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/security-comms/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-05-27
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/security-comms

## What it does

The skill transforms security artifacts into audience-specific deliverables across seven distinct groups: board members, executives, engineering managers, individual developers, customer success, customers, and compliance teams. Instead of raw CVE lists, leadership gets financial exposure estimates, while developers receive exact file paths and code-level fixes.

It operates in two modes: drafting from technical input or reviewing existing communications. Merging multiple audiences into one document ruins clarity, so the skill isolates each deliverable. It requires Read, Write, and WebSearch tools to inspect source findings and reference material.

Customer-facing breach notifications produced by the skill are strictly drafts that require legal review before release. It also integrates with companion skills like `finding-triage` and `incident-triage` to pull raw security narratives.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill security-comms -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/security-comms/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/security-comms/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill security-comms -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/security-comms/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill security-comms -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/security-comms/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills security-comms
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/security-comms/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill security-comms -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --path skills/security-comms
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/security-comms/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills --skill security-comms -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/briiirussell/cybersecurity-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/security-comms/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Draft a board-level risk summary focusing on dollar impact instead of CVE counts
- Create concrete engineering tickets with file paths, reproduction steps, and fixes
- Build an internal FAQ for sales teams answering customer security questionnaires
- Draft clear customer breach disclosures without evasive PR softeners

## Example prompts
- Translate this scan finding into an executive memo for the CFO with trade-offs and inaction costs
- Draft an engineering ticket for this XSS finding with exact code changes and a test
- Create a customer incident disclosure draft explaining what happened and what data was involved

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: security-comms
description: "Translate technical security work into the language of non-security audiences — board, executives, engineering, customer success, customers, legal, procurement, sales. Covers incident communication, post-mortem narrative, audit-findings-for-stakeholders, risk justification, security spend justification, and customer-facing breach disclosure. Use when the user mentions 'security comms,' 'communicate this finding,' 'explain to my boss,' 'board update,' 'executive summary,' 'incident communication,' 'breach notification,' 'customer disclosure,' 'security memo,' 'post-mortem narrative,' 'risk justification,' 'why this matters to the business,' 'translate this finding,' 'stakeholder update,' or has technical security work that needs to land with a non-security audience."
allowed-tools: Read, Write, WebSearch
---

# Security Comms — Translating Security Work for Non-Security Audiences

The skill that closes the gap every other skill produces. The audit family generates findings; the response family generates incidents; the governance family generates roadmaps. None of those outputs survive contact with a board, a customer, a sales engineer trying to answer a security questionnaire, or a CFO asking "is this going to cost us money."

This skill takes technical security work and turns it into the deliverable that audience can actually use. It's the skill security practitioners reach for two to three times a week and that founders without dedicated security teams reach for whenever a finding has to leave the security context.

Cross-references: feeds from every other skill (audit output, incident write-ups, threat-model summaries, CSF assessments) and produces audience-specific deliverables; pairs especially closely with `finding-triage` (the disposition writeup) and `incident-triage` (the response narrative).

## The seven audiences (and what each one actually needs)

Security comms is not one register. Each audience needs a different deliverable; using the wrong register is the most common failure mode.

### 1. Board of directors / non-executive directors

**They need to know:** Are we materially exposed? Is the team handling it? Is more investment needed?

**They do not need:** CVE numbers, file paths, scanner names, technical jargon, the methodology.
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