How to Justify Your Cybersecurity Budget

## Executive Summary This article advises CISOs on justifying cybersecurity budgets by demonstrating return on investment through automation that reduces analyst time on high alert volumes, presenting clear, business-aligned KPIs (e.g., patch cadence, MTTR), and emphasizing the year-over-year cost and operational benefits of SaaS subscription models; it concludes by positioning SecurityScorecard’s continuous monitoring security ratings platform as a cost-effective SaaS solution for improving visibility and reducing long-term operational and breach costs.