Mahoney Control · Financials

Don't Guess Cybersecurity ROI.
Calculate It.

Every cost in your budget has a number — except cyber risk. The Financials module translates your security spend and cyber risk into dollars — counted where possible, modeled where necessary.

Real and modeled figures — always labeled, never blended

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All figures in the Financials module are calculated from your own environment. Modeled values are labeled as modeled. Risk and growth models are advisory and do not constitute financial or legal advice.

Core Capabilities

From Security Spend to Business Case

Four capabilities that turn "what does security cost us?" into a business case for cybersecurity your CFO can actually sign.

Baseline

Four Numbers CFOs Understand

Most security dashboards speak in severities and alert counts. The Financials module opens with four KPIs in plain dollars: Cost per Device, Spend per User, Cost per Incident and Risk Exposure Value. The first three are counted from your real data; the fourth is modeled — and labeled as modeled.

Cost per Device and Spend per User — counted from your real spend data
Cost per Incident — your incident economics, not an industry average
Risk Exposure Value — modeled, and labeled as modeled

Mahoney Control Financials — four financial KPIs in dollars

Simulation

Two Inputs. One Business Case.

The ROI simulator asks for two inputs and returns a structured business case: projected risk reduction, return on security investment (ROSI) and the assumptions behind both — visible, editable, challengeable. No black box, no vendor math. If your CFO wants to stress-test an assumption, change it and watch the case recalculate.

Two inputs produce a full, assumption-transparent business case
ROSI calculated against your spend baseline — not a marketing multiplier
Every assumption stays visible and adjustable

Mahoney Control Financials — ROI simulator turning two inputs into a business case

Quantification

What a Breach Would Cost You

Breach costs from industry reports are someone else's average. Incident Cost Mapping attaches dollar values to your incident classes, and the risk engine quantifies your exposure using the FAIR model — as a range with a confidence band, not false precision. FAIR is a methodology, not a certification; results are advisory.

Incident classes mapped to dollar impact from your environment
FAIR-based risk quantification with an explicit confidence band
A range you can defend — not a point estimate you have to apologize for

Mahoney Control Financials — incident cost mapping by downtime and labor cost

Boardroom

From Dashboard to Board Pack

Spend breakdown by connector category shows where your security budget actually goes. Budget planning puts next year's numbers next to this year's reality. When the board meets, one CSV export hands finance the raw data in their own format — no screenshots, no transcription. Your controller can audit every line.

Spend breakdown by connector category — see where the budget flows
Budget planning against your real baseline
Board-ready CSV export — finance audits the raw lines

Mahoney Control Financials — security budget planning and board-ready export

Sample data for illustration purposes — your inputs, your case.

The Honesty Principle

Two Kinds of Numbers. Never Mixed.

REAL · counted MODELED · estimated

Every figure in the Financials module carries one of two labels: REAL — counted from your actual data — or MODELED — estimated from stated assumptions. The platform refuses to add the two into one impressive headline number, because a blended figure is how security ROI gets oversold. If a number on screen is an estimate, it says so. That is the entire trust model — and the reason a CFO can take these numbers into a board meeting.

4 KPIs

Dollar-Denominated Baseline

2 Inputs

Full ROSI Business Case

1 Export

Board-Ready CSV

All values in the Financials module are calculated from your environment. Modeled values are labeled as modeled. Risk and growth models are advisory and do not constitute financial or legal advice.

Boardroom — presenting the security business case

From Spreadsheet to Boardroom

From an Act of Faith to a Line Item.

Operations runs your security operations. Governance maps your controls. Growth Intelligence finds the upside. Financials is where all of it lands on one page in one currency — the security posture of your company, expressed in numbers your board already knows how to read. Same Mahoney Control instance, same telemetry, same opt-in principle.

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The Difference

Spreadsheet Guesswork vs. Quantified Risk

Your CFO has a value for every risk in the company — except one. Cyber risk is the number that isn't on your balance sheet.

Budget Defense by Gut Feeling

Industry Averages as Arguments

The breach-cost figure in the budget deck comes from a vendor report about other companies. The CFO knows it — and discounts it accordingly.

One Blended ROI Number

Counted savings and estimated risk get added into a single impressive figure. It survives exactly one follow-up question.

Cyber Risk Missing from the Books

Every other business risk has a value attached. Cyber risk shows up as a tool list and a feeling — so the budget gets defended, never approved with conviction.

Renewal Time Means Starting Over

Every budget cycle rebuilds the same spreadsheet from scratch, with numbers nobody can trace back to source.

A Business Case in Your Own Numbers

Your Environment, Your Economics

Cost per device, spend per user, cost per incident — counted from your actual data, not borrowed from a report about someone else.

Real and Modeled, Kept Apart

Counted figures and estimates never blend into one headline. Every number survives the follow-up question — because its label already answered it.

Risk as a Range, Not a Guess

FAIR-based cyber risk quantification with a confidence band puts a defensible dollar range on your exposure. Advisory, transparent, challengeable.

A Standing Business Case

The ROI simulator and CSV export mean next quarter's budget conversation starts from live numbers — risk reduction against spend, not memory against opinion.

FAIR is an analysis methodology applied by the platform, not a certification. Risk and growth models are advisory and do not constitute financial or legal advice.

FAQ

Financials — Frequently Asked Questions

How do you calculate cybersecurity ROI?

The Financials module calculates cybersecurity ROI from your own environment: it counts what security actually costs you (per device, per user, per incident), models your risk exposure value, and the ROI simulator turns two inputs into a return-on-security-investment (ROSI) case — projected risk reduction against spend. Counted and modeled figures are always labeled separately, so the resulting business case holds up to finance-team scrutiny.

What is a good ROI for cybersecurity?

There is no universal benchmark — and any vendor quoting one is averaging other companies' risk. A security investment is defensible when the modeled reduction in expected loss exceeds its cost in your environment. That is exactly what the ROI simulator shows, with its assumptions visible, so "good" becomes a judgment your leadership makes on evidence rather than a number taken on faith.

How do I justify the security budget to the board?

Boards approve business cases, not tool lists. The Financials module gives you the three elements a budget case needs: what security costs today (spend breakdown), what your risk is worth in dollars (risk exposure value with a confidence band) and what a proposed investment changes (ROI simulator). The CSV export hands the underlying data to finance in their own format — turning budget defense into a review of numbers they can audit.

What is the cost of a data breach?

Industry reports publish averages — but an average describes other companies. The honest answer depends on your incident economics: downtime, response effort, legal and notification obligations, reputational damage. That is why the Financials module maps incident costs from your environment and models your exposure instead of quoting a headline figure. Your number is the one that belongs in your risk register.

What is cyber risk quantification (CRQ)?

Cyber risk quantification expresses cyber risk in financial terms — dollars of probable loss — instead of traffic-light ratings. Mahoney Control applies the FAIR model and shows results as a range with a confidence band, not a false-precision point estimate. FAIR is an analysis methodology the platform applies; it is not a certification, and quantified results are advisory — they inform decisions rather than replace them.

How is ROI measured honestly?

By refusing to blend two kinds of numbers. Everything in the Financials module is labeled REAL (counted from your data) or MODELED (estimated from stated assumptions), and the platform never adds them into one headline figure. Assumptions stay visible and editable. An honest security ROI is one that survives the CFO's follow-up questions — that is the design goal of this module.

Your data stays yours · Security operations since 2018 · Data residency EU / US / Asia — your choice · Your tools stay yours

ISO 9001:2015 certified by DEKRA (Germany) · 24/7 SOC operations · Four modules, one platform

See Your Security Spend in a New Currency

30 minutes. No sales pitch — just an honest look at how the Financials module turns your security spend and your cyber risk into numbers your board can act on.

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Mahoney Control maps controls to ISO 27001 · SOC 2 Type II · NIS 2 · DORA · NIST CSF

Framework mapping supports your audit preparation — certification itself is awarded by independent auditors. All figures in the Financials module are calculated from your environment; modeled values are labeled as modeled. Risk and growth models are advisory and do not constitute financial or legal advice.

Don't Guess Cybersecurity ROI.Calculate It.