Free Templates

9 Box Template

The 9 Box helps executives align cybersecurity spend with business value by mapping projects by Impact and Effort. It highlights quick wins, strategic priorities, and high-effort essentials, ensuring budgets drive the greatest risk reduction and measurable business impact.

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Business Case Template

A ready-to-use Business Case Template that helps you justify cybersecurity investments with clear ROI, risk reduction metrics, and executive-ready visuals. Perfect for winning budget approvals and proving the value of your security solutions.

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Cyber 6 Pack Template

The Cyber Six Pack is a gamified vulnerability management report that turns security metrics into a competitive scorecard. Track six managers across application security tools and build a stronger, more resilient security posture through data-driven progress.

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Cybersecurity Budget Template

A practical template to build and justify your cybersecurity budget. Prioritize investments, align spending with business goals, and clearly show ROI to executives.  All in one easy-to-use framework.

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Cybersecurity Tools Inventory

A simple, structured template to track all your cybersecurity tools, costs, owners, and renewals. Gain visibility, reduce overlap, and make smarter budget decisions with a clear view of your security stack.

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Cybersecurity Tools Murder Board

The Cybersecurity Tools Murder Board Template helps teams rigorously evaluate security tools for retirement. Use it to challenge assumptions, uncover blind spots, and ensure only the most effective, cost-efficient, and defensible tools remain in your environment.

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Innovation Pulse Check

The Innovation Pulse Check shows whether your engineering org is getting cheaper, faster, and better or just busier. A single view to track tech debt, delivery speed, and resilience so you can see where innovation stalls and where to invest for impact.

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Risk Appetite Matrix

The Risk Appetite Matrix turns tough calls into clear choices, plotting Business Benefit vs. Risk and Exposure so leaders can instantly see what’s worth the risk and what’s not.

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Risk Approval Template

The Risk Approval Template streamlines decision-making by documenting identified risks, mitigation strategies, and leadership sign-off. It ensures accountability, transparency, and alignment before accepting or proceeding with known cybersecurity risks.

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The Three Lines of Defense Model

Think cyber owns everything cyber? Think again. Real security requires the three lines of defense: Devs & admins provide products and services while managing risk, cyber provides policy, expertise, and oversight, and audit keeps everyone honest. Together, the 3 lines of defense create accountability based on a helpful list of responsibilities

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