Security Budget Builder

Justify security spending

Security spending competes for budget and must be justified, and an ROI argument is how. This tool helps build ROI arguments for security tools, so you can make the business case for the security investment you need.

Why security needs an ROI case

Security spending is often seen as a cost with no visible return, which makes it hard to fund against investments that show clear revenue. But security has a return: the losses it prevents, breaches averted, downtime avoided, fines and reputational damage prevented. Framing a security tool’s value as the risk-weighted cost it avoids, against its price, turns it into an ROI argument decision-makers can weigh like any other. This is how security gets funded, by making the return visible rather than presenting a bill, and it is a skill security teams often lack to their own detriment.

A tool, not advice

It runs entirely in your browser, so nothing you enter is uploaded, which matters when the input concerns your own business or security posture.

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