How To Reframe Cybersecurity Budget Requests And Get Them Approved
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
Sausalito, Calif. – Dec. 4, 2025
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Cybersecurity is no longer considered a “technical issue managed by IT departments, according to IBM. Rather, it “dominates concerns among the C-suite.”
A recent survey names “cyber incidents” as the number one global business risk.
These findings indicate the rising profile of cybersecurity and underscore that it is well on its way to becoming a strategic imperative and leadership priority.
Despite this, security staff in many organizations struggle to get cybersecurity budgets approved by senior leaders.
To stay ahead of adversaries and their cyber-weapons of mass destruction, companies must also continuously test existing controls against real-world threats.
Knowing that security gaps exist and how to patch them is one thing, but getting the funds approved to implement these patches can be a challenge. A blog post from the experts at BreachLock explores how technical security practitioners and leaders can leverage insights from offensive security tools to obtain cybersecurity budget approval.
With continuous pentesting and adversarial exposure validation (AEV), security teams have a unique opportunity to reframe budget requests from opinion-based “we think we need this” requests to evidence-based requests focused on business impact, dramatically increasing the likelihood of leadership approval.
Will businesses actually approve the spend? Cybersecurity Ventures predicts that the world will spend $522 billion on cybersecurity products and services in 2026.
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