Budget Siege
You're the new CISO. The board wants 10% savings. The APT group is already in your network.
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Sample report · illustrative data
Sample result: Budget Siege board report
Example end of a run for an invented company: you chose keep, right-size, cut or consolidate for each line of the security stack against a savings target, then handled surprise events during the year.
Scoreboard (invented figures)
- Saved against the target
- $9,000K, which is 90% of a $10,000K target
- Emergency spend from events
- $1,200K
- Net savings
- $7,800K (saved minus emergency spend)
- Board confidence
- 35%
- Simulated attack outcome
- Partial breach
How board confidence got there
| Step | Effect |
|---|---|
| Starting confidence | 70% |
| An event handled well | +10 |
| An event handled badly | -10 |
| An event that damaged the board relationship | -15 |
| Right-sizing the SOC, so the attack ended as a partial breach | -20 |
Debrief
Hitting most of the savings target did not protect the result: right-sizing the SOC turned the attack into a partial breach, and cutting the threat-hunting team would have meant exfiltration. Cuts that look cheap on a spreadsheet show up as emergency spend and lost board confidence later in the year.
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