Security leaders are now expected to protect business growth and clearly articulate security value to their board of directors, in addition to managing risk. While translating technical defense into measurable financial returns can be challenging, Mandiant Consulting can help you bridge the gap.

Organizations that engaged with Mandiant Consulting reported an average annual benefit of $4.3 million, driving a 268% three-year ROI, with a payback period of just 4.1 months, according to a new IDC Business Value White Paper commissioned by Mandiant. IDC based these findings on its standard ROI methodology and qualitative and quantitative interviews of current Mandiant customers, applying standard financial models. The interviewed organizations are large, highly-complex environments with an average of $17.3 billion in revenue and 74,000 employees.

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One healthcare organization interviewed by IDC reported that its partnership with Mandiant completely changed the dynamic of its commercial conversations. "Mandiant has enabled us to engage more confidently with customers and position our security posture as a market differentiator, with security now consistently ranking among the top three reasons clients choose us. It has also contributed to reducing our insurance costs by $50,000 per year,” said the healthcare organization.

Frontline threat intelligence in action

CISOs consistently struggle with internal resource constraints and skill deficits, and internal security teams rarely have the time to track every emerging threat group. Mandiant addresses this by distilling findings and delivering frontline threat intelligence and guidance derived from over 500K hours of global incident investigations last year. 

Instead of trying to monitor everything, resource-constrained teams can focus their limited hours on the specific threats that are most relevant to them and likely to target their specific industry and build specific targeted defenses. A retail organization highlighted how working with Mandiant experts allowed them to actively defend against targeted campaigns, like those from the Scattered Spider cybercrime group. 

"One of the most significant accomplishments from using Mandiant has been their ability to help us create detection use cases specific to Scattered Spider based on their industry knowledge. This has enabled us to monitor, detect, and neutralize related attacks, which is a key reason we have avoided incidents,” the organization told IDC.

To ensure detections are built on solid foundations, many organizations also use Mandiant to run deep technical audits across their identity infrastructure — including Active Directory, privileged account management, and multi-factor authentication (MFA). This independent verification provides crucial reassurance to leadership, an energy-sector organization told IDC. 

"Mandiant provides external assurance that our cyberprogram is thorough and validated from a risk management perspective. Their validation and recommendations have helped us reinforce that messaging to our board. They are highly professional, risk aligned, and among the most trusted,” they said.

Quantifying the business and operational impact

By synthesizing customer experiences, IDC quantified the broader operational advantages seen, on average, by customers who worked with Mandiant:

• 59% greater preparedness to successfully address cyberattacks.

• 45% overall improvement in cyber-resilience.

• 36% more efficient security analyst teams, allowing internal staff to focus on more strategic, growth-oriented initiatives.

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_{Source: IDC Business Value White Paper, Sponsored by Google, The Business Value of Mandiant Consulting (Doc #US54605426-BVWP, July 2026)}