SECURITY INVESTMENT EFFECTIVENESS

Security tools are bought and renewed without a clear view of utilisation, detection yield or overlap, so spend flows to under-performing investments. Coverage gaps and wasted licences hide in the stack.

Actors

  • CISO
  • Head of Security Engineering
  • Finance Business Partner

Systems / Vendors

  • SIEM
  • Asset / tool inventory
  • BI / data lake

Business Question

"Which of our security investments are actually earning their keep, and where are we paying for overlap?"

What SPoG Does

  • Measures tool utilisation, detection yield and cost versus coverage.
  • Identifies under-performing security investments.
  • Turns spend decisions into evidence.

Outcome Metrics

−20%

Tooling cost

1

Investment effectiveness view

6–10 wks

To first outcomes