Cybersecurity ROI: why boring security is your best investment

The article argues that focusing on security fundamentals delivers the highest ROI, citing Expel's 2026 Annual Threat Report (68.6% of incidents are identity-based; over half blocked by basic controls like MFA and conditional access), and provides guidance for prioritizing IAM, patching, EDR, cloud hygiene, and third-party risk while communicating value to CFOs through measurable risk reduction, business enablement, benchmarking to real attack patterns, and articulating the cost of not acting.