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Strategic Budgeting for Security Management

In this lab, you’ll practice calculating the ROI of security controls to show their overall importance to the company. When you’re finished, you’ll have the ability to quantify how much money each dollar spent on cybersecurity is saving your company.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Jul 30, 2025
Duration
55m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Understanding Security Investments

    In this first challenge, you will learn to evaluate the tangible benefits of individual security investments.

  3. Challenge

    Understanding the Financial Cost of a Security Breach

    In this challenge, you will review a case study of a past data breach and identify the overall impact of the data breach on the company.

  4. Challenge

    Calculating the ROI of Security Controls

    In this challenge, you will be provided with a scenario in which you will practice calculating the ROI of a given security control.

  5. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

About the author

Shimon Brathwaite is a seven-year cybersecurity professional with extensive experience in Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, Identity and Access Management and Consulting.

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