Security Economics Report - OpsBeacon

What it covers

The Security Economics Report translates every open security finding into a monthly dollar cost — the financial exposure of leaving it unresolved. Findings are ranked by cost so you work on what matters most financially.

How to trigger it

@Beacon run the security economics report
@Beacon show me security findings in dollar terms

Sample output

Security Economics Report
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Security Trade-off Score: 62/100

4 Open Security Gaps  |  Total Exposure: $67.30/mo

  finding-01  GuardDuty not enabled (us-east-1)
              Exposure: $31.00/mo  |  Fix: $12.00  |  Effort: Low
              → Enable GuardDuty for ML-based threat detection

  finding-02  Public S3 bucket with sensitive data
              Exposure: $18.50/mo  |  Fix: $8.00   |  Effort: Low
              → Restrict bucket ACL and enable Block Public Access

  finding-03  Root account has no MFA
              Exposure: $11.80/mo  |  Fix: $2.00   |  Effort: Low
              → Enable MFA on root account

  finding-04  Unencrypted EBS volumes
              Exposure: $6.00/mo   |  Fix: $25.00  |  Effort: Medium
              → Enable EBS default encryption

Beacon Assessment:
  3 of 4 findings have fix cost < $15. Resolving findings 01–03
  costs ~$22 and eliminates $61.30/mo in exposure — a 2.8× return
  in the first month.

To investigate: reply `review finding-01`
To assign: reply `assign finding-01 to @teammate`

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