23 Dec Penetration Testing In The Boardroom
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
Sausalito, Calif. – Dec. 23, 2025
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Penetration testing is one of the very few ways to evaluate how attackers would compromise your environment without actually experiencing an incident.
To position pentesting as a strategic investment, CISOs and security leaders are challenged to move the conversation away from “What does this cost?” and toward “What does this help us prevent?” The silver lining in that challenge is that pentesting directly protects revenue, customer trust, and operational continuity, which are all things boards already prioritize.
When the value of pentesting is universally understood, it shifts from an annual cost to a catalyst for proactive risk reduction that enables both security and business goals.
When reframed this way, it becomes far easier to justify investments in modern pentesting approaches like Penetration-Testing-as-a-Service, commonly known as PTaaS, security testing automation with manual, human-delivered pentesting, and in some cases, AI.
In a recent blog post, BreachLock, an award-winning cybersecurity company, presents a pentesting ROI formula that can be used internally to quantify savings in order to make your case for PTaaS far more defensible. While you may not present this formula to the board, it can definitely help a CISO prepare a compelling boardroom presentation.
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