CYBERSECURITY BUSINESS CASE TOOL
ROI Calculator
Build a financial case for a cybersecurity tool, service, or initiative. Enter your assumptions and the calculator will estimate annual loss exposure, cash flow, net present value, internal rate of return, and payback period.
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Project
Identify the proposed investment and the controls or metrics it improves.
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Risk variables
Define your industry, organization size, and expected change in risk.
NAICS code appears in parentheses.
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Enter a value from 0 to 100.
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Use this when heightened exposure should increase annual loss expectancy.
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Estimated annual cost of risks
Use record-based loss costs or enter your own hard and soft cost assumptions.
Calculated data loss cost
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Based on the selected industry's cost per record.
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Examples: fines, theft, notification costs.
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Examples: reputation and employee time.
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Cost of the tool or service
Enter acquisition, implementation, consulting, and recurring costs.
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Additional annual benefit
Include measurable hard savings and weighted soft savings.
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Financial assumption
Set the discount rate used for the net present value calculation.
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