Internal Champion Toolkit Checklist

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Internal Champion Toolkit A board-ready summary and Q&A sheet for the person making the case internally.

Use this diagnostic to find the gaps in your internal pitch before you present to the budget owner. It surfaces the data points executives ask for once cybersecurity hits the agenda.

Regulatory & timing risk Can you quantify the cost-per-day if FDA issues an RTA on cyber under Section 524B? Do you have eSTAR-ready content for the Cybersecurity and Software sections? Is there a clear deadline for finalising the SBOM and Vulnerability Disclosure plan?

Financial & operational impact Does the CFO understand the cost delta between mid-review remediation and premarket preparation? Is leadership aware that AAMI SW96, AAMI TIR57, and IEC 81001-5-1 are now baseline expectations? Have you mapped internal engineering hours against the cost of specialist external validation?

Executive alignment Does the board view cybersecurity as a market-access requirement, not a product feature? Is there a prepared response to the 'we can do this in-house' position from technical leadership? Do you have a one-page summary that translates CVEs into business liability for non-technical signers?

How to read it. Fewer than four boxes checked across the three sections suggests the internal pitch is not yet board-ready. The most common reason a premarket cyber engagement stalls is a champion who is missing one or two of these data points.

NEXT STEP → Book a 15-minute toolkit call to walk through the gaps and assemble the missing data before your next executive review. Book your discovery call: go.bluegoatcyber.com/meetings/blue-goat-cyber/discovery-session

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