The Strategist's Toolkit: Where to Find the Data to Quantify Security Risk

The Security Executive Brief

15 Jul 2025 — 4 min read

You've been told a thousand times: to get executive buy-in, you must quantify risk and speak in the language of business. It's great advice, but it often omits the most critical detail: where do you actually find the numbers?

It’s one thing to know you need to estimate the cost of a workplace violence incident or a supply chain disruption; it’s another to find credible data to build a defensible financial model. A business case built on vague assertions will be dismissed. One built on verifiable, industry-accepted data will get approved.

This briefing is a practical, hands-on guide to the resources and tactics you can use to find the specific data points needed to transform your security proposals from requests into data-driven investment cases.

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