Best Practice Report

CISOs’ Tactics To Win Every Budget Battle

Use Three Externalities To Protect Your Security Budget From Macroeconomic Headwinds

December 27th, 2022
Jeff Pollard, VP, Principal Analyst
Jeff Pollard VP, Principal Analyst
With contributors:
Joseph Blankenship , David Levine , Allie Mellen , Jess Burn , Zachary Dallas

Summary

CISOs already know that cybersecurity is a core competency of their businesses. Other executive leaders may not. This is often in part because security leaders failed to highlight how many externalities force security spending. Those externalities include customers, cyberinsurers, and regulators. This report introduces a new Forrester methodology that demonstrates how cybersecurity spending directly impacts revenue. Security leaders can use it to defend their security budgets to the board, C-suite, and other stakeholders.

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