How Much Should Your Business Invest in its Cybersecurity?

March 19, 2025

Long story short: it depends.

As unhelpful as that answer may seem on the surface, it really is the truth. There are just so many variables that different businesses will exhibit that ultimately impact how their budgets should be shaped. For instance, both a small mom-and-pop shop and a massive corporation need cybersecurity, but the scale of their respective investments will vastly differ.

Let’s go over how to budget appropriately for your cybersecurity protections and concerns.

What is an Appropriate Budget for Small/Medium-Sized Business Cybersecurity?

To determine this, we have to identify what a business’ cybersecurity budget should cover. Generally speaking, you will want to consider numerous scenarios and invest in the right precautions, including:

Business continuity planning and preparation
Employee security training and evaluation
Risk assessment processes
Incident response training
Cyber insurance policies
Cybersecurity evaluations and audits

Of course, some costs come with carrying out these precautions, too:

Business continuity requires storage for backup data copies, and teaching your team to follow your strategy requires time.
Again, training team members to follow cybersecurity best practices will incur time costs, as will the process of checking to see how effective this training is through testing.
It will also take time to identify, rank, and address the issues your business is at risk of facing, and if you lean on materials to assist, there will be material costs.
Insurance policies cost a premium to maintain coverage, and cyber insurance is no exception.
Once a team’s preparedness is gauged through an audit and similar assessments, there will be costs associated with patching up any shortcomings.

On top of this variability, plenty of standard practices that different industries and business sizes must follow will also add to these costs. Based on the compliance requirements each is beholden to, various businesses must maintain specific cybersecurity measures. If they fail to do so, the resulting cybersecurity issues are very expensive in terms of the losses they incur—in both the business’ finances and productivity alike.

We’re Here to Help You Prepare for a Worst-Case Scenario!

While it would be factually inaccurate to say we’ve seen it all, it’s still pretty close to being true. You can trust us to handle any cybersecurity issues in your business efficiently and professionally, including those that haven’t actively created a problem for you… yet.

Learn more about the investments you need to make to protect your business by calling us at (571) 470-5594 today.

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