Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases now! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Crafting Secure Software

You're reading from   Crafting Secure Software An engineering leader's guide to security by design

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835885062
Length 156 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
GitGuardian SAS GitGuardian SAS
Author Profile Icon GitGuardian SAS
GitGuardian SAS
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Security Landscape FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 2: The Software Supply Chain and the SDLC 3. Chapter 3: Securing Your Code-Writing Tools 4. Chapter 4: Securing Your Secrets 5. Chapter 5: Securing Your Source Code 6. Chapter 6: Securing Your Delivery 7. Chapter 7: Security Compliance and Certification 8. Chapter 8: Best Practices to Drive Security Buy-In 9. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations: Index

ROI in cybersecurity

Return on Investment (ROI) is a big deal in business. Any business venture needs to demonstrate a positive ROI, and a good one at that, in order to be viable.

The problem is that security is not an investment that provides a return, such as a new factory or a financial instrument. It’s an expense that, hopefully, pays for itself in cost savings. Security is about loss prevention, not about earnings. So, while security can’t produce ROI, loss prevention most certainly affects a company’s bottom line.

Most importantly, while ROI may not be a perfect fit, it’s a concept that business folks are very familiar with. Since security teams do not exist for their own benefit, and have very real costs of their own, communicating risk in security-specific terms makes it very difficult for business leaders to understand how to value their efforts.

You’ll need to know how to talk about ROI if you want to convince your business partners...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime