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Prove Your Worth: How to Measure Cybersecurity ROI and Impress Your Board

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Marten Mickos argues security ROI is provable via cost-of-breach savings: OneWeb and Booking.com use bug bounty baselines to show avoided damage, calling bug bounty their highest-ROI security spend.
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