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Security Operations Is a Defense Layer, Not a Cost Center
Security operations teams are increasingly underfunded relative to other business functions, with security budgets averaging 0.69% of company revenue compared to 7.8% for marketing. The article argues that treating security operations as a cost center rather than a revenue-protecting asset exposes organizations to breach risk, with global data breach costs averaging $4.99 million and $11.5 million in the United States. Modern threats accelerated by artificial intelligence (AI) require organizations to invest in security operations capabilities, including AI-driven defense platforms, to detect and respond to incidents at machine speed.
Why it matters: Security leaders and chief information security officers (CISOs) need to reframe security operations investment to executive stakeholders as business enablement, not overhead, to secure adequate budget and resources for threat detection, incident response, and the AI tools required to match attacker speed and scale.
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