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Weighing The Risk: The Cost Of Skipping Pen Tests

Digital Defense, Thursday, May 30th, 2024

Cybersecurity budgets are beginning to get cut across the country, and organizations are faced with tough choices about what should stay and what should go.

As security budgets face extra scrutiny and potential cuts, it's critical to evaluate the cost and benefits of each security practice. It can be difficult to define the value of proactive security solutions like pen testing, as a precise ROI is hard to determine. After all, how does one quantify attacks that were prevented? Despite this challenge, assessing offensive efforts it is still a worthwhile and necessary task.

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