Dashboards can help, but not replace the need for foresight. Security dashboards are critical for the board to review regularly and act upon to save their organizations from cyber threats.
Key focus of the board members is to monitor financial/business metrics to avoid financial losses, reduce damage to reputation and trust, avoid the cost of data breaches, and eliminate business disruptions. Unfortunately, these metrics are not always easy to compute as no one wants to allocate budget thinking of potential incidents and losses.