Cybersecurity ROI Calculator

Model three years of alert investigation, threat hunting, and penetration testing cost, with and without Simbian.

In production across 300+ enterprise environments

$2.65M Over Three Years for an 8-Analyst SOC

Modelled at 4,000 alerts a month, 20% annual alert growth, and list price. Same maths as the calculator below.

Three-year saving

$2.65M

$6.02M in hires, playbooks, hunts, and outside tests. $3.37M with Simbian.

Payback: 8 months; after the first annual payment
Hires to keep pace: 2 instead of 11; by year three, same team in control

Annual cost of coverageWithout SimbianWith Simbian

Annual cost of coverage, without and with Simbian
Year	Without Simbian	With Simbian
Year 1	$1.54M	$874K
Year 2	$1.95M	$1.12M
Year 3	$2.52M	$1.38M

Where the $2.65M comes from

three years, list price

Alert investigation$1.43M86% → 10% queue load
Playbooks retired$834K1,520 engineering hours a year
Threat hunting$301K264 hunts a year
Penetration testing$155K10 tests → 20 runs

In production

2+ hours → under 15 seconds

Identity-compromise response · A $1.8B credit union

In production

12× alert coverage

No added headcount · An MSSP serving the Middle East

Run It on Your Own Numbers

Ten inputs. Every other default is in the strip below.

Three-year saving$2.65M

What you run today

Your team

Analysts working alertspeople

Loaded cost per analyst$per year

Alert investigation

Alerts workedper month

Analyst time per alertminutes

Escalations to incident responseper month

Threat hunting

Hunts runper month

Hunter time per hunthours

Penetration testing

Web apps testedapps

Outside pentests per appper year

Outside pentest fee$per test

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Three-year saving

$2.65M

Without Simbian$6.02M

With Simbian$3.37M

Payback: 8 months
Analyst hours back: 12,348 a year
Alert to response: 3.5 hours → 17 min
Hires to keep pace: 2 instead of 11, by year 3

Alert investigationqueue load 86% → 10%+$1.43M
Playbooks retired1,520 engineering hours a year+$834K
Threat hunting264 hunts a year+$301K
Penetration testing10 outside tests become 20+$155K

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Three-year totals at list price, breach-cost savings excluded. Simbian is billed annually in advance, which is why payback lands after the first payment rather than in month one.

How it works

How the Cybersecurity ROI Calculator Works

Four calculations, all shown. The same maths our team runs with customers, cut from 75 questions to ten.

Capacity

Each analyst has 1,400 productive hours a year, run at 80% target utilisation. Alerts multiplied by minutes per alert tells the model how many analysts the queue needs today, and how many hires that becomes as volume grows 20% a year.

Improvement curve

Simbian starts by investigating 70% of alerts to a verdict and reaches 85% as it learns your environment. Analyst context notes shorten that curve: at 10 notes a week the model reaches 90% of the ceiling in 3.5 months instead of 6.9.

Residual work

Verdicts arrive with their evidence, so review time per alert is 50% shorter, and 10% of investigated alerts still get a human QA pass. 95% of the responses we propose are approved by the customer's own analysts. Their call, not ours.

Payback

Hires land in the month the queue needs them. Simbian bills annually in advance. Payback is the first month cumulative net value turns positive, which is why it lands after the first payment and never in month one.

Every Default Behind the Result

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Cybersecurity ROI: Frequently Asked Questions

Cybersecurity ROI is the cost of keeping pace with alert volume, hunts, and tests today minus the cost of the same coverage with Simbian, over three years. This calculator counts analyst capacity, the hires needed as alerts grow 20% a year, playbook upkeep, hunter hours, and outside pentest fees, then subtracts Simbian's annual bill at list price. Payback is the first month cumulative net value turns positive.

A SOC of 8 analysts working 4,000 alerts a month costs $1.54M in year one once loaded analyst cost, hiring, playbook maintenance, threat hunting, and penetration testing are counted, and $2.52M by year three as volume grows 20% a year. Loaded cost per analyst defaults to $165,000; change it in the calculator and the SOC cost moves with it.

An outside penetration test defaults to $18,000 plus $4,000 for a retest, so 10 web applications tested once a year cost $220,000 a year. With Simbian's AI Pentest Agent each application is tested 2 times a year across 200 endpoints for a modelled $155K less over three years, and every finding ships with the trace of how it was found.

8 months at the reference profile. Simbian bills annually in advance, so payback lands after the first payment rather than in month one. Teams that write analyst context notes reach the improvement ceiling in about 3.5 months instead of 6.9, which pulls payback forward. Known alert types move from 3.5 hours to 17 min from alert to gated response.

No. The model keeps your current team and counts the hires you would otherwise need to keep pace with 20% annual alert growth: 11 by year three without Simbian, 2 with it. Your analysts keep containment authority and approve every proposed response. 95% of the responses Simbian proposes are approved by the customer's own analysts. Their call, not ours.

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