CBOM Secure
ROI & Savings Calculator
Quantify the return of replacing manual cryptographic discovery, audit prep, and post-quantum assessment with continuous, automated cryptographic posture management, with defaults grounded in published industry research.
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1 Manual cryptographic discovery & inventory
Labor of finding and cataloging keys, certificates, and algorithms across cloud, HSMs, databases, servers, and source code, by hand.
Benchmark: the average organization manages 83,000+ certificates and ~267,000 machine identities, growing ~43% YoY, yet 71% don't know how many they hold. (Ponemon Institute)
2 Audit & compliance preparation
Rebuilding cryptographic inventory and evidence for NIST, FIPS 140-3, PCI DSS 4.0, CMMC, ISO 27001, replaced by always-current, on-demand reporting.
Benchmark: fully-loaded staff cost derived from the $124,910 median US information-security analyst salary (May 2024) plus ~30% overhead. (U.S. BLS)
3 Post-quantum & crypto-agility assessment
Identifying quantum-vulnerable algorithms (RSA, ECDH, ECDSA) and building a prioritized migration roadmap to NIST PQC standards.
Benchmark: NIST finalized PQC standards (FIPS 203/204/205) in Aug 2024; RSA/ECC are slated for deprecation after 2030 and disallowed after 2035 (NIST IR 8547). (NIST)
4 Crypto-related risk & incident avoidance
Outages from expired certificates, exposure from weak ciphers or key reuse, and incident response, mitigated by continuous visibility and alerts.
Benchmark: 54% of organizations had at least one outage from an expired certificate last year; enterprise IT downtime averages ~$300K/hour (Gartner), and a full data breach averages $4.88M (IBM 2024).(Ponemon Institute)
5 Your investment
Annual CBOM Secure subscription / program cost. Enter your quoted figure for an accurate ROI.
Total estimated savings annually
Gross savings across all four value drivers
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Why the numbers matter
The default benchmarks in this calculator are drawn from published, independent sources. Swap in your own figures, the research simply gives you a credible starting point.
Global average cost of a data breach in 2024, a 10% jump and the largest since the pandemic.
Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024
Average cost of a single certificate-related outage; total outage cost can reach $67M over two years.
Source: Ponemon Institute
Certificates the average organization manages, with machine identities near 267,000 and growing ~43% YoY.
Source: Ponemon Institute
Of organizations experience at least one certificate-related outage every month.
Source: Security Magazine
Widely cited average cost of enterprise IT downtime (~$5,600 per minute); higher for Fortune 500.
Source: Gartner (via Atlassian)
RSA & elliptic-curve cryptography deprecated after 2030 and disallowed after 2035; PQC standards finalized Aug 2024.
Source: NIST (FIPS 203/204/205, IR 8547)
Maximum public TLS certificate validity by March 2029, roughly an 8× increase in renewal frequency, making automation essential.
Source: CA/Browser Forum (SC-081v3)
Median US information-security analyst salary (May 2024), the basis for fully-loaded labor costs here.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Of IT professionals say their organization does not know exactly how many keys and certificates it has.
Source: Ponemon Institute
The math behind the numbers
Every result is calculated directly from the inputs you enter, with no hidden assumptions. Use the equations below to audit or adapt the model to your own company's data.
First full discovery covers all assets once. Subsequent cycles only re-scan what changed — new certificates, expired keys, rotated credentials — so cost scales with your change-rate, not your total asset count.
Staff time spent rebuilding cryptographic evidence for each audit cycle, reduced by always-current, on-demand reporting.
Annual hours spent manually identifying quantum-vulnerable algorithms and planning migration, reduced by automated PQC tagging.
Expected annual exposure weighted by incident likelihood, reduced by the share of risk CBOM Secure specifically addresses through continuous visibility and alerts.
Variable definitions
| Assets | Number of cryptographic assets (keys, certificates, algorithms) to inventory |
| Timeasset | Minutes to manually discover & catalog one asset |
| Cycles | Re-inventory cycles per year |
| Costmin | Fully-loaded staff cost per minute |
| Automation% | Share of manual discovery effort automated by CBOM Secure |
| Audits | Compliance audits / cycles per year |
| Hoursaudit | Staff hours per audit spent on cryptographic evidence |
| Ratehr | Fully-loaded staff cost per hour |
| Reduction% | Percentage by which the effort is reduced |
| Hourspqc | Staff hours per year on manual post-quantum assessment |
| Incidents | Crypto-related incidents per year |
| Costincident | Average cost per incident |
| Risk Reduction% | Percentage by which incident risk is reduced |
| Annual Investment | Annual CBOM Secure subscription / program cost |
| Change-rate % | Share of assets that change between re-inventory cycles (new, expired, rotated); only these are re-scanned after the first full discovery |
| Existing automation % | Level of automation the customer already has in place before CBOM Secure; savings count only the improvement beyond this baseline |
| Incident probability % | Annual likelihood of a crypto-related incident occurring, used instead of assuming a fixed incident count |
| CBOM attribution % | Share of the risk reduction credited specifically to CBOM Secure, separating total risk reduced from risk reduced because of CBOM |
| Discount rate % | Annual rate used to convert future-year savings into today's value (present value) |
| Year-1 benefit realized % | Share of full annual benefit achieved in year 1, accounting for deployment and onboarding time |
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