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Cybersecurity professionals uncover threats every day, but a finding only matters when it reaches the right person in the right form. This lecture note is a complete guide for first-year HND students taking CDP 324, bridging the gap between technical knowledge and professional communication. It opens with the core principles of technical writing, then shows how clarity, accuracy, audience focus, and objectivity apply directly to incident reports, vulnerability assessments, and risk analyses. Students learn the 5 Ws and 1 H framework for unpacking security scenarios, how to turn messy raw logs into short organized findings, and how to structure reports using the problem, evidence, analysis, conclusion, recommendation model. The note covers APA and IEEE citation styles with worked examples, introduces Zotero for managing references, and explains how team peer review catches the errors no author can see alone. It also tackles the hard parts: responsible disclosure, privacy versus security, pressure to soften findings, and a four-step framework for working through ethical dilemmas. The final chapter teaches students to translate technical risk into business language using analogies, connecting findings to money, reputation, and compliance so executives and boards can act. Clear, practical, and grounded in real examples, this note prepares students to write reports that get read and get results.