How to reduce costs and simultaneously not reduce the level of security?
2023 will be a challenging year. Cost reduction or layoffs also apply to the IT branch. All the more, we cannot expose ourselves to additional threats. We suggest in 8 simple steps how to have your cake and eat it nowadays.
How to reduce costs and simultaneously not reduce the level of security?
- Check if you use purchased tools. You can save a lot -> e.g. $29,250 instead of $13,750 per year by limiting the number of SCA and SAST scans using the example of Snyk (https://snyk.io/plans/). Maybe you need to restructure projects and repositories?
- Prepare internal security awareness training for the entire team! – REMEMBER that most security problems start with people.
- Cut unnecessary training, but give a raise instead 😉
- Check what business contracts you have planned in 2023 – what specific security requirements you must meet today and what can be postponed to the following year.
- DO NOT MAKE A PRO-FORMA PENTEST – check if you have fixed all problems reported previously and critical problems reported by security tools.
- Think about Security as a service (SECaaS).
- Don’t stand still and add to your security debt! Focus on „Gain visibility” and „Prevent new issues” and possibly postpone „Fix the backlog” and „Optimize security”
- DO NOT save on the incident response team – just 1 data breach can ruin your entire business built over the years!
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