Unifying FinOps and SecOps: The case for FinSecOps | TechTarget
Infrastructure costs and cybersecurity threats are rising simultaneously and dramatically, yet executives must still demonstrate both fiscal discipline and cyber resilience. Instead of approaching these challenges as separate objectives measured by different metrics, organizations should optimize for risk reduction per dollar spent, not independent cost reduction or security expansion.
This is where a unified model of FinOps and SecOps comes in.
The problem with siloed FinOps and SecOps teams
In a nutshell, FinOps prioritizes efficiency, utilization and forecasting, and SecOps prioritizes protection, detection and resilience. Isolating them reduces the effectiveness of each while ignoring essential financial and technical outcomes.
For example, if an organization uses separate operating models, it might find itself reducing logging work to save on storage costs, or maintaining redundant security tools without a clear plan for ROI. Keeping the two separate can also delay modernization and training due to budget pressures, or generate technical debt that...
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