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What Does Cloud Security Actually Cost Your Team?

It's not just the tools. It's the engineers.

Calculate the real cost of managing cloud security in-house, including the work that doesn't get done while your team chases alerts.

Your Team's Time

Including triaging alerts, reviewing findings, writing remediations, and attending security meetings

Platform, DevOps, SRE, and developers who get pulled in

Industry benchmark: 1.3-1.5x base salary for fully-loaded cost

The Real Cost

Your Current Investment

What cloud security costs today

$91k - $135k
per year
Direct time spent$53k - $64k
Context-switching overhead$13k - $16k
CSPM / cloud security tooling$25k - $55k

Hidden Costs

What you're not tracking

$38k - $64k
per year
Expertise gap

Part-time attention = missed findings

$10k - $20k
Opportunity cost

Features not shipped

$18k - $29k
Knowledge concentration

Single points of failure

$10k - $15k

Managed Cloud Security

Prebuilt tooling and automation

Refined across dozens of environments

Cross-client pattern recognition

Insights from managing many teams

Full-time expertise, part-time cost

Specialists without hiring

Engineers back on product work

Features, not compliance checkboxes

Time Returned to Your Team

Based on your inputs

273 - 351 hrs
per year

What that engineering time could build:

  • 2-3 major product features
  • Meaningful technical debt paydown
  • Infrastructure modernization project

See what this looks like for your team

These are estimates based on industry benchmarks. Let's look at your actual environment and build you a real proposal.

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