Cybersecurity Buying Guides and Strategy

Death by a Thousand Cuts: How Budget Micro-Cuts Kill Security Programs

Budget micro-cuts kill security programs slowly. Learn how CISOs can quantify cumulative damage, defend headcount, and report risk to the board before it's too late.

Jan 28

12 min

Guides

Build your security program

Identify Maturity Assessment: Where Most Programs Fall Short

Govern Maturity Assessment: Where Most Programs Fall Short

Recover Maturity Assessment: Where Most Programs Fall Short

Protect Maturity Assessment: Where Most Programs Fall Short

Building a Respond Program With a Team of 5

Building a Protect Program With a Team of 5

Control Reliability Engineering: Treating Security Controls Like Production Systems

Building a Identify Program With a Team of 5

Building a Govern Program With a Team of 5

Building a Detect Program With a Team of 5

Building a Recover Program With a Team of 5

Ceremonial Security: Controls Your Team Performs But Nobody Measures

The Quarterly Access Review Is Broken. Here Is What to Do Instead.

Run the team and the budget

Vendor Consolidation: When It Saves Money and When It Creates Risk

Rule of Thirds: Why Your All-Technical Security Team Is Failing

CISO First 90 Days: What to Do and What to Avoid

Death by a Thousand Cuts: How Budget Micro-Cuts Kill Security Programs

The 5 Security Metrics Your Board Actually Cares About