Technical debt, often accumulated in the pursuit of rapid innovation, creates a significant and frequently underestimated attack surface, allowing adversaries to exploit neglected systems, outdated configurations, and undocumented processes, leading to costly breaches. This talk empowers blue team professionals to not only recognize how such debt directly fuels these security incidents, but also to effectively communicate these technical vulnerabilities as quantifiable business risks to secure essential resources. Attendees will deconstruct the debt-driven attack chain, learning precisely how technical debt facilitates adversary success; they will translate risk into impactful business language, mastering techniques to articulate financial, operational, and reputational impacts to leadership; and finally, they will gain actionable strategies to champion strategic remediation efforts, transforming technical debt from a silent threat into a prioritized security initiative.