Did you know that a your mindset is one of the defining factors of your company’s security level?
In many companies security is being perceived as a necessary evil, because it costs money. Everything is in details and mindset, and having a negative attitude to security investments, is not the right way to go about it. It’s hard enough, so why make it even more cumbersome?
When we talk about Returns of Investments of security engagements, we mean the indirect ROI which is avoidance of losses. When you start looking at security from this perspective, as for something that can help you save plenty of money, it’s a whole different story and your executive team will be more eager to spend money on infosec.
If you’re a software company, security can boost your sales because customers nowadays have pretty good general awareness about security. It puts them in position to make demands about quality of your products. By having confidence and being able to prove that your product is more secure than your competitors’ one, you can sometimes win a deal just by that.
In some industries, security is a mission critical requirement and it’s not the cost, features or usability that makes customer choose specific vendor. It’s the assurance that customer’s data is safer with you, a vendor that heavily invests in security to be in top of the game.
You invest in security to protect yourself against financial losses, and sometimes you can use it as leverage while competing for a customer.