Year-end approaches: How to maximize your cyber spend

This sponsored advisory outlines how to allocate year-end security budgets for maximum risk reduction, prioritizing identity-focused controls (expanding MFA, tightening privileged access, auditing unused AD accounts, and blocking breached passwords), outcome-driven engagements (attack-surface reviews, tabletop IR, purple-team exercises), tool consolidation to cut overlap, and low-friction continuity safeguards (IR retainers, surge capacity for cloud/CDN, and authentication capacity planning). It stresses documenting business cases, defining KPIs, and mapping spend to compliance controls to demonstrate measurable security improvements and strengthen future funding requests.