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Three methods to set your security budget
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Using headcount, revenue and/or development budget to benchmark your security budget.
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The Goldilocks Principle
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Like the story of Goldilocks, you want to invest the amount of effort (and money) that is ‘just right’; not too much, nor too little.
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Big ideas
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A summary of the key points of this course.
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Risk, effort, cost
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Risk drives effort and effort drives cost! Not the other way around.
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Spend wisely overview
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A brief introduction to the ideas that this course section will cover.
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Syllabus
Syllabus
Course description
No one has an unlimited budget, and it can be difficult to determine how much time, effort and money to spend on security. This course examines the relationship between risk and cost and then helps determine the right balance of spending versus outcomes, providing a framework to think about your security budget.


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