{"id":92874,"date":"2021-02-18T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-07-03T04:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:59:05","slug":"forrester-consulting-tei-study-azure-security-center-delivers-219-percent-roi-over-3-years-and-a-payback-of-less-than-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2021\/02\/18\/forrester-consulting-tei-study-azure-security-center-delivers-219-percent-roi-over-3-years-and-a-payback-of-less-than-6-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrester Consulting TEI Study: Azure Security Center delivers 219 percent ROI over 3 years and a payback of less than 6 months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Azure Security Center<\/a> is a critical tool to secure our multi-cloud workloads in the new world of remote work we find ourselves in today. We are excited to share that Forrester Consulting has just conducted a commissioned Total Economic Impact\u2122 (TEI) study<\/a> on behalf of Microsoft, which involved interviewing existing customers to create an accessible framework for organizations to evaluate the financial impact of Azure Security Center. The results are big\u2014Azure Security Center delivers 219 percent return on investment (ROI) over three years and a payback of less than six months; reduces the risk of a cloud security breach by up to 25 percent, reduces time to threat mitigation by 50 percent, and reduces the cost of third-party security tools and services from consolidation by over $200,000 annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Forrester study concluded that Azure Security Center reduces threat protection costs at scale, simplifies security posture management, and improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the Security Operations Center (SOC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forrester found that a composite organization experienced benefits of $3.56 million over three years versus costs of $1.1 million. This adds up to an ROI of 219 percent with payback in less than six months<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cost Savings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Prior to using Azure Security Center, the customers were relying on multiple third-party cloud security tools implemented in different organizational siloes to understand their security posture and defend against potential threats. However, the distributed and disintegrated nature of this approach introduced inefficiencies into security workflows, produced a plethora of false-positive threat alerts, and limited visibility of the organization\u2019s overall security posture, leading to potential security risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the investment in Azure Security Center, the customers’ visibility into the security posture of their Azure workloads increased substantially, reducing the risk of cloud security breaches while also improving the productivity of security teams responsible for threat detection and remediation and security policy and regulatory compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forrester found that an organization experienced benefits of $3.56 million over three years versus costs of $1.1 million. This adds up to an ROI of 219 percent with payback in less than six months. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We thought that if we could replace third-party tools with integrated Azure functionality, it might improve visibility. It might catch additional threats. It might ease configuration work, reducing management overhead in the end.”\u2014<\/em>IT security manager, professional services \u00b9<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Reducing risk factors and time to respond<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Forrester interviewed four customers with experience using Azure Security Center and aggregated the experiences of the interviewed customers, and combined the results into a single composite organization. This framework helps identify the cost, benefit, flexibility, and risk factors that affect the investment decision. According to aggregated data, Azure Security Center demonstrated strong benefits such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n