The Cyber Threat Perspective Episode 150: How to Use Pentest Findings to Justify Your Next Security Spend
Sep 19, 2025
Discover how to turn pentest results into budget justification for your security initiatives. Learn to link vulnerabilities to real-world risks and potential financial impacts on your organization. Explore strategies for prioritizing high-ROI fixes and tailoring findings into business language that resonates with leadership. The hosts also discuss staffing challenges and the benefits of fractional CISOs, while offering insights into future security investments. Transforming pentest data into actionable funding strategies has never been more vital.
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Schedule Tests Around Budget Cycles
- Time your penetration tests to finish before budget season so findings can feed next-year requests.
- Use the test window to convert technical gaps into budgeted initiatives and justify spend.
Findings Reveal Systemic Root Causes
- Individual findings often indicate systemic root causes, not isolated bugs.
- Treat findings as signals for policy or platform changes rather than one-off fixes.
Turn Findings Into Actionable Projects
- Translate technical findings into broader domain or policy issues and recommend tools or processes to fix them.
- Propose specific technologies or policy changes that prevent recurrence, not just remediation steps.