Cybersecurity Budgeting Playbook: How To Build, Justify, and Optimize Your Security Environment

Cyber Attacks Devastate Businesses of All Sizes: 60% of SMBs Close Within 6 Months, While Enterprises Face Millions in Recovery Costs.

Most organizations struggle to build effective security budgets, often reacting to threats instead of proactively investing in protection. Cyber attacks are increasing at unprecedented rates and compliance requirements tightening across industries, you need to be investing strategically. 

The gap between knowing you need cybersecurity and knowing how much to spend (and where) leaves many businesses vulnerable to both cyber threats and budget waste.

Watch this session to transform your cybersecurity budgeting from guesswork into an actionable roadmap. Learn to conduct meaningful risk assessments, prioritize high-impact investments, and build clear business justifications that get leadership buy-in while maximizing your security ROI.  

What You’ll Get From this Session:

• Risk Assessment Foundation: Learn how to identify your organization’s major risk vectors by understanding what data you store, who your likely threat actors are, and what your most critical assets and essential processes are.
• Gap Assessment Using Industry Standards: Understand how to use frameworks like to baseline your current security posture and identify gaps across key security pillars.
• Budget Category Framework: Discover how to structure your cybersecurity budget across the four essential categories, plus understand the typical 15-20% IT budget allocation guideline.
• Prioritization and Justification Strategies: Get practical approaches for prioritizing security investments and learn how to frame cybersecurity spending as revenue protection and business enablement to secure leadership buy-in.
• Industry-Specific Budgeting Insights: Access tailored considerations for healthcare, financial services, legal/professional services, and construction/manufacturing sectors, with specific technology and compliance focus areas.

Led by one of Dataprise’s seasoned cybersecurity professionals who has helped hundreds of organizations optimize their security investments, this session transforms the complex challenge of cybersecurity budgeting into a clear, actionable roadmap you can implement immediately.

Stop Guessing and Start Strategizing:

This session serves leaders who recognize that cybersecurity requires strategic investment but need practical guidance to build effective, justifiable budgets.

The workshop is particularly valuable for organizations that:

• Are struggling to determine appropriate cybersecurity spending levels or justify security investments to leadership and stakeholders.
• Have experienced security incidents and need to rebuild their defenses strategically rather than reactively patching vulnerabilities.
• Face specific compliance requirements (HIPAA, PCI DSS, GLBA, SEC rules) and need to budget for both regulatory adherence and comprehensive protection.
• Are growing rapidly and need to scale their cybersecurity investments alongside business expansion while maintaining cost efficiency.
• Currently rely on ad-hoc security spending and want to establish systematic, framework-based budgeting processes that align with industry standards.
• Are evaluating whether to build internal security capabilities or partner with managed security service providers (MSSPs) for optimal cost-effectiveness.
• Need to present cybersecurity budget proposals to boards or executive teams and require compelling business justification and ROI documentation.

Panelists Include:

• Josh McNulty: vCISO, Dataprise