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A Forrester Total Economic Impact™ Study: Cynet Delivers 426% ROI

Forrester Consulting interviewed a Cynet customer and built a three-year financial model around the results. Here's what consolidating cybersecurity onto one platform was actually worth.

Before adopting Cynet, the executive manager of IT at a $1 billion wholesale and retail organization was running legacy infrastructure, endpoints on unsupported operating systems, and a single basic endpoint tool standing in for a real security program. Forrester Consulting interviewed that customer and modeled the three-year financial impact of moving to Cynet's AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platform. The result: benefits that outweighed costs more than 5 to 1.

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Key Findings

$279,000 saved by retiring standalone security tools.

Before Cynet, the organization licensed and maintained separate tools for centralized log management, SOAR, and mobile security, on top of overlapping legacy antivirus. Consolidating all of it onto one platform made those standalone investments unnecessary.
$933,000 saved by avoiding data breaches.

EDR, network traffic analysis, intrusion detection, and threat intelligence worked together inside the platform instead of bolted-together point products — which is what let the customer catch and contain an active incident before it became a breach.

$348,500 saved on incident investigation and reporting.

Manual incident investigation used to take up to two hours across multiple systems, with report writing adding up to two more business days. Automated forensic summaries and reporting cut investigation time by 88% and reporting time by 98%.
$1.8 million saved through built-in security orchestration.

The largest line item in the study. Matching that security posture without Cynet would have required five additional full-time hires plus an outsourced 24/7 SOC. Cynet's platform and built-in Platinum SOC service replaced both.

About This Study

Forrester Consulting conducted this Total Economic Impact™ study on behalf of Cynet, based on an interview with an executive manager of IT at a $1 billion wholesale and retail organization using Cynet's AI-Powered Cybersecurity Platform. Forrester used that interview to construct a three-year, risk-adjusted financial model, projecting the costs and benefits of the Cynet deployment. Figures reflect Forrester's independent analysis and are presented as a composite organization representative of the interviewed customer's experience.

Why We're Sharing This Research

The four proof points in this study tell one story: a unified platform doesn't just close security gaps, it removes the cost of trying to close them piecemeal — separate tools, extra headcount, and outsourced coverage that a single platform already includes. This report breaks down where each dollar of savings came from, so security and IT leaders evaluating consolidation can see exactly what it was worth for a comparable organization.