Event Summary
Organizations are investing more in security—across cyber, physical, and operational domains—but often lack a clear, consistent way to evaluate return on investment (ROI). Leaders struggle to quantify risk reduction, assess insurance needs, and understand the full business impact of security decisions.
Without a structured approach, organizations may either underinvest—leaving critical vulnerabilities exposed—or overspend on technologies that do not meaningfully reduce risk. This can result in increased exposure to incidents, gaps in insurance coverage, and an incomplete understanding of both financial and intangible consequences such as safety, reputation, and operational continuity.
This course provides a practical framework for evaluating security investments by connecting risk, cost, and business outcomes. It explores cyber and business risk insurance considerations, examines the full consequence space (including intangible impacts), and provides a balanced view of the benefits and limitations of purchasing security technologies.
Participants will be able to assess and prioritize security investments, align spending with risk reduction, and make informed decisions about insurance and technology adoption. They will leave with a clearer, more defensible approach to balancing cost, protection, and overall business value.
Who Should Attend
- Executive leaders and decision-makers responsible for budgets and risk
- Security, risk, and compliance professionals
- Operations leaders evaluating security strategies
- Finance and insurance professionals supporting risk and investment decisions
- Anyone responsible for balancing cost, risk, and organizational resilience
What You Will Gain
- A practical framework for evaluating the ROI of security investments
- Insight into cyber and business risk insurance and how it supports risk strategy
- Understanding of the full consequence space, including financial and intangible impacts
- Guidance on prioritizing security investments based on risk exposure
- Awareness of the pros and cons of purchasing security technologies
- Increased confidence in making and justifying security-related decisions
- 3 Professional Development Hours (PDH) upon completion
Meet Your Instructor
Annie McIntyre
Director of Security, EverLine
Annie McIntyre is the Director of Security at EverLine. Prior to EverLine, Ms. McIntyre was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ardua Strategies, Inc., a Texas Corporation, providing solutions for the cyber and operational security issues of energy and infrastructure. Prior to founding Ardua Strategies, Ms. McIntyre was a Principal Member of Technical Staff and Program Manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her research areas at Sandia included threats, vulnerabilities, and protection of critical infrastructure systems, and cybersecurity for fossil and renewable energy systems. She managed the Sandia-Forest City Strategic Partnership program for sustainability, and participated in programs such as the Institute for Infrastructure Information Protection (I3P), and National SCADA Test Bed. Ms. McIntyre conducted the first cyber analysis of a renewable system in 2007 for the Department of Energy.
Prior to work in critical infrastructure, Ms. McIntyre worked extensively in the defense sector on information warfare and survivability, serving as IO Laboratory Chief and Information Warfare Lead for Future Combat Systems Assessments at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. She previously served as New Mexico Regional Manager for Concurrent Technologies Corporation, a defense and energy contractor, and performed systems analysis and engineering in the bioinformatics field for Molecular Informatics, Inc. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with the U.S. Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, and Defense.
Ms. McIntyre conducts extensive work on security policies as they relate to energy and infrastructure. She served as an author for the American Petroleum Institute’s SCADA Security Standard (1164v2), serves on the Advisory Council at the North American Energy Standards Board, and has served as a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Technology Leadership Institute. She is a Licensed Private Investigator in the State of Texas.
