When security spending meets the boardroom, someone inevitably asks, “What’s the ROI?” Fair question. Let’s stack viLogics’ TSO 365 using the current national benchmarks of $175 per protected endpoint, per month, against nationally recognized breach-cost benchmarks and see what the numbers say.
Global average cost of a data breach (2025): $4.44M. IBM’s newest study shows the average breach still rings up in the multi-millions—even after faster detection shaved some time off the lifecycle. Breaches now routinely trigger >100 days of recovery work. IBMCyberScoopHelp Net Security
U.S. breaches cost even more. Recent coverage of the 2025 report highlights U.S. breach averages topping ~$10.2M—driven by legal exposure, customer churn, and extended recovery. IT Pro
Ransomware is everywhere. Verizon’s 2025 DBIR reports ransomware present in ~44% of breaches, with growing third-party/supply-chain exposure. Even when ransoms aren’t paid, the business interruption cost dominates. VerizonKeepnet Labs
Downtime alone is crippling. Independent analyses peg >$300k per hour as typical for mid-large orgs (exclusive of fines, PR, legal). In heavy industry, the picture is worse. itic-corp.com
New risk category: AI. IBM 2025 finds 13% of organizations reported AI-system breaches; “shadow AI” incidents add ~$670k to breach totals on average. Translation: the risk surface grew—and costs followed.
Even one moderate breach overwhelms years of proactive security spend.
At $175 per endpoint/month, TSO 365 Premium wraps the controls that directly compress breach likelihood, dwell time, and impact:
24/7 U.S.-based vSOC + XDR (behavior analytics)
PAM (kill credential-abuse blast radius)
Application Containment & Digital Fingerprinting (zero-day kill-switch)
FWaaS (managed policy + monitoring)
Compliance reporting (CMMC, HIPAA, NIST, CIS v8)
Zero Trust enforcement across identities, devices, and apps
Incident Response playbooks + coordinated recovery
Pre-qualification support for cyber insurance
This isn’t “more tools.” It’s less dwell time and smaller blast radius—the two variables that move breach dollars the most.
Let’s run conservative math for a typical mid-market fleet.
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Endpoints: 250
Benchmark Price: $175/endpoint/month
Annual TSO 365 Package cost: 250 × 175 × 12 = $525,000
Benchmark breach cost (global avg): $4.44M (U.S. median can be far higher) IBM
Break-Even Test (Single-Breach Avoidance):
How many full years of TSO 365 equal one average breach?
So, one averted breach in ~8½ years pays for every dollar of your TSO 365 program over that span. The payback is even faster if your risk profile is higher (U.S. average, regulated data, ransomware prevalence). IBMVerizon
Risk-Adjusted View (No Crystal Balls Needed):
Even if you assume just a 12% chance of a material breach per year (one in ~8 years)—well below many real-world experiences—the expected annual loss is $532,800 (0.12 × $4.44M), already exceeding the $525k annual TSO 365 investment. And that ignores reputational damage, contract penalties, and regulatory costs that often aren’t fully captured in the averages. (We’re using the IBM benchmark for loss severity; probability varies by sector but has trended unfavorably in recent reports.) IBM
Gartner doesn’t publicly publish a certified per-endpoint MSSP price benchmark. Public market samplers exist but are not apples-to-apples with a Premium, integrated stack like TSO 365. One 2025 industry roll-up show standard MSSP offerings average ~$73/endpoint/month. However, those bundles typically exclude items like PAM, FWaaS, containment/DFP, deep compliance reporting, and hands-on IR, which TSO 365 includes. It’s the old sedan vs. fully-loaded SUV problem. It's in the same category but with very different capabilities. MSSP Alert
If you want a “Gartner-anchored” conversation, we recommend using Gartner’s outcome-oriented view (reduce mean time to detect/contain, minimize business disruption) and pairing it with IBM/Verizon severity data for the financials. That keeps the narrative credible and current without pretending there’s a single Gartner sticker price.
Fewer incidents (XDR + Zero Trust + PAM): cuts probability. Verizon’s 2025 DBIR underscores credential abuse and third-party routes—exactly what Zero Trust and PAM blunt. Verizon
Shorter dwell time (24/7 vSOC + containment): IBM’s 2025 report ties faster containment to lower total cost; lifecycle matters. IBM
Lower downtime (IR muscle memory + FWaaS hardening): Every hour off the clock is six figures saved for many orgs. itic-corp.com
Regulatory readiness (mapped controls + reporting): Fewer fines, faster attestations, smoother audits.
Insurance leverage (pre-qualification + control validation): Underwriters love clean control posture; premiums and coverage terms follow suit.
200 endpoints: $175 × 200 × 12 = $420k/year. One average breach (global) equals 10.6 years of TSO 365. In the U.S. (≈$10.2M), it’s 24.3 years. IBMIT Pro
500 endpoints: $175 × 500 × 12 = $1.05M/year. One average breach pays for ~4.2 years globally, ~9.7 years U.S. IBMIT Pro
Even if TSO 365 only halves breach impact (a conservative assumption given containment + IR), the avoided loss typically dwarfs program cost in the first year an incident would have occurred.
AI accelerates attackers’ prep time (phishing/deepfakes at scale), raising frequency.
“Shadow AI” expands your blast radius and adds ~$670k to a breach if you’re not controlling models, data, and access. TSO 365’s Zero Trust and PAM foundation are your first line of governance here. IBM NewsroomSpyCloud
If security spend is an “insurance policy,” it’s the rare one that also reduces the chance and shrinks the payout. Using IBM and Verizon as the national yardsticks, TSO 365 Enterprise at $175/endpoint is cash-flow positive in any reasonable risk scenario—and wildly accretive the first time it prevents or materially shrinks an incident. That’s not soft ROI; that’s hard avoided loss plus operational resilience.