Calculate your cybersecurity budget from your risk profile.
Build a defensible security investment plan from public pricing, multi-source benchmarks, and security frameworks. No vendor bias, no email gate — results are immediate and free.
How it works
Three inputs in, a sourced budget out — in under two minutes.- 01
Describe your org
Industry, size, revenue, endpoints, and cloud footprint. Smart defaults are pre-filled — adjust what matters.
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Set your risk profile
Data sensitivity, current maturity, compliance needs, and threat exposure shape every recommendation.
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Get a sourced budget + benchmark
A budget range, maturity score, risk level, peer benchmark, and per-control breakdown — every figure cited and dated.
The typical organization spends ~11% of its IT budget on security.
See where your plan lands against a multi-source meta-benchmark — no single vendor's pitch, just blended peer distributions you can defend.
Every number is sourced, dated, and built on a documented methodology.
Bottom-up unit costs
Per-seat and per-endpoint list pricing, blended with negotiated-rate caveats — never a single quote.
Multi-source benchmarks
Spend ratios cross-checked across independent surveys, with confidence levels on every figure.
Documented & versioned
A public, versioned methodology and changelog — no anonymous "experts agree" seals.
From the guides
All guides- Guide · 8 min read How much does cybersecurity cost? The three ways to frame security spend — % of IT budget, % of revenue, and per employee. Read guide
- Guide · 7 min read Budget by company size Typical annual security spend from startup to enterprise, with priorities for each stage. Read guide
- Guide · 6 min read Security budget per employee Per-employee spend benchmarks by company size and industry, with the usual caveats. Read guide
Latest from the blog
All posts- How-to Build a defensible budget in 5 steps A repeatable way to size, justify, and defend security spend to a CFO or board. Read post
- Pricing EDR vs MDR vs XDR: what you pay for Tool vs. managed service vs. correlation layer — and where the money actually goes. Read post
- Benchmarks What the 2026 IANS benchmark shows Security spend held near 11% of IT budget — with growth concentrated in cloud and identity. Read post
Build your defensible security budget
Ungated, source-cited, and free. Get your sourced budget in under two minutes.