ISSA Sacramento Valley Chapter Meeting – 01/17/2025 – Building a Defensible Cybersecurity Budget

Security leaders often find that their budget requests must compete against other operational budget requests and arguably more productive uses of cash. Unless security leaders know how to communicate their budget needs according to the Money People’s business objectives, they may find themselves underfunded and underprepared to satisfy their organization’s security needs. This discussion will introduce key concepts that security leaders need to master to effectively produce a defensible cybersecurity budget to the Money People.

Robert D. Brown III BIO: Senior Director of Cyber Resilience
Rob Brown brings 25+ years of experience serving organizations from startups to government agencies and Fortune 100 companies as a senior strategic planner and decision science advisor across industry verticals such as telecommunication, electronics manufacturing, commercial real estate, oil & gas production, pharmaceuticals & biotech, logistics, aluminum manufacturing, and homeland security. Not only is he the author of Business Case Analysis with R – Simulation Tutorials to Support Complex Business Decisions (2018), he also contributed a chapter to How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk, 2nd Ed (Hubbard, Seiersen. 2023) and co-edited The Metric Manifesto: Confronting Security with Data (Seiersen. 2022). Rob holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia institute of Technology. Robert joined Resilience in 2022 with Richard Seiersen to help SMBs understand cyber risk quantification and elevate the practice of cyber security to a strategic level.