{"id":1300,"date":"2024-12-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cycognito.com\/blog\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2025-06-19T09:08:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:08:24","slug":"need-to-boost-the-value-of-your-security-budget-in-2025-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cycognito.com\/blog\/need-to-boost-the-value-of-your-security-budget-in-2025-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Need to boost the value of your security budget in 2025? Here’s how."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you are like many CISOs, you feel pressure to increase the value of your security testing budget. And if you are one of the 53% of enterprises<\/a> reporting stagnant or decreasing budgets in 2024, you have even more work cut out for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increasing testing value requires a re-evaluation of nearly everything. Tackle tool sprawl. Optimize workflows. Reduce false positives. Review cloud spend. All while demonstrating ROI even in the absence of incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post is about ways to reach these goals. We will then work through an example to provide some color. And at the end I will talk about how CyCognito can help accelerate them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is that whatever path you take, you will have a stronger, more valuable security testing program with data to back it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defining Security Testing Value<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s look at value first. Traditionally, value is understood as a ratio of benefit to cost. Here we define value as a ratio of tool effectiveness to cost \u2014 how much each dollar spent on testing tools helps reduce risk and mitigate threats.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Both terms are expressed in currency. Your decisions must achieve the right balance of cost and effectiveness. Staff health needs to be at the forefront \u2013 there is a limit to how much costs can be reduced without creating an unhealthy work environment. The bare minimum is a ratio greater than 1, where \u201c$ effectiveness\u201d exceeds \u201c$ spend.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strategies for Reducing Costs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In many organizations, reducing hard costs\u2014for example, licensing, compute, storage, and telemetry \u2014 are the most straightforward path to increased value. This makes sense \u2013 a good movie at $5 a ticket is better value than the same movie at $20 a ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider these as a starting point:<\/p>\n\n\n\n