--- title: Total Economic Impact of Egress ROI Calculator | Advanced | KnowBe4 description: Discover the financial and efficiency benefits that can be achieved by your organization by investing in Egress Intelligent Email Security, now KnowBe4 Cloud Email Security. image: https://www.knowbe4.com/hubfs/og_image_default.png --- Javascript must be enabled for the correct page display # Total Economic Impact of Egress Intelligent Email Security Understand the potential savings you can achieve with Egress. PROPOSED ANNUAL INVESTMENt NO. OF USERS **SAVINGS** **INBOUND THREATS ** | **OUTBOUND EMAILS ** | **REPORTING AND ANALYSIS ** **3-YEAR SAVINGS: ** **ROI: ** **1-YEAR SAVING** ** ** **3-YEAR SAVING** ** ** ![](https://www.knowbe4.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/knowb4-s2-theme/modules/egress-tools/tei-calc/images/icon-img-01.png) **3-YEAR RETURN-ON-INVESTMENT** ** triangle up icon ** ![](https://www.knowbe4.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/knowb4-s2-theme/modules/egress-tools/tei-calc/images/icon-img-02.png) **PAYBACK** **   ** **INBOUND THREATs** ** SAVINGS: ** Metric Savings by year 3 End-user time savings Security FTE productivity savings Savings in out-of-hours SOC time reduction Savings in security administration Avoided costs associated with breach prevention Inbound email protection savings Risk adjustment Inbound email protection savings (risk-adjusted) Three-year total: Three-year present value: *icon back* | End-user time savings Metric | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Volume of inbound emails | | | | | Volume of phishing emails expected | | | | | Volume of graymail emails delivered to end-user inbox | | | | | Percentage reduction in phishing emails received by end user | | | | | Average time spent by end user in reviewing email | | | | | Average fully burdened FTE salary (hourly rate) | | | | | Subtotal | | | | Recalculate *icon back* | Security FTE productivity savings Metric | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Volume of suspicious emails reported to IT Security team | | | | | Average time spent by security FTE investigating emails | | | | | Percentage of effort saved | | | | | Average fully burdened salary of IT security FTE | | | | | Subtotal | | | | Recalculate *icon back* | Savings in out-of-hours SOC time reduction and security administration Metric | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | SOC out of hours contract fee | | | | | Reduction in out of hours contract fee due to automatic quarantining | | | | | Subtotal (time reduction) | | | | | Subtotal (security administration) | | | | Recalculate *icon back* | Avoided costs associated with breach prevention Metric | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Volume of phishing emails detected | | | | | Volume of phishing emails sent directly to quarantine | | | | | Amount of breaches from inbound emails experienced annually | | | | | Percentage of simple breaches | | | | | Average cost of remediation for simple breach | | | | | Percentage reduction in simple breaches | | | | | Avoided costs associated with simple breach | | | | | Percentage of material breaches | | | | | Percentage reduction in material breaches | | | | | Average cost of remediation and reporting labor cost per material breach | | | | | Avoided costs associated with material breach | | | | | Subtotal | | | | Recalculate **OUTBOUND EMAILS** **SAVINGS: ** Metric Savings by year 3 Savings in misdirected email investigation Savings in misdirected email incident remediation Avoided data loss remediation costs for simple incidents Avoided data loss remediation costs for material incidents Avoided data loss remediation costs Outbound email protection savings Risk adjustment Outbound email protection savings (risk-adjusted) Three-year total: Three-year present value: *icon back* | Savings in misdirected email investigation Metric | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Total volume of outbound emails per year | | | | | Volume of potential misdirected emails per year | | | | | Investigation efforts per misdirected email (hours) | | | | | Fully loaded hourly rate for IT security staff | | | | | Subtotal | | | | Recalculate *icon back* | Savings in misdirected email incident remediation Metric | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Misdirected email incidents per year | | | | | Time spent to remediate misdirected email incident | | | | | Percentage reduction in misdirected email remediation | | | | | Subtotal | | | | Recalculate *icon back* | Avoided data loss remediation costs for simple incidents | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Volume of potential data loss events prevented by Egress | | | | | Percentage of simple data loss incidents | | | | | Remediation efforts per simple data loss incident (hours) | | | | | Average fully loaded salary of data loss remediation team | | | | | Percentage reduction in data loss events | | | | | Subtotal | | | | Recalculate *icon back* | Avoided data loss remediation costs for material incidents and loss remediation costs Metric | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Percentage of material data loss incidents | | | | | Remediation efforts per material data loss incident (hours) | | | | | Subtotal (data loss remediation costs for material costs) | | | | | Subtotal (data loss remediation costs) | | | | Recalculate **REPORTING AND ANALYSIS** **SAVINGS: ** Metric Savings by year 3 Time savings in report creation Time savings in human risk analysis Savings in answering security audit questions Reporting, analysis, and audit savings Risk adjustment Reporting, analysis, and audit savings (risk-adjusted) Three-year total: Three-year present value: *icon back* | Time savings in report creation Metric | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Time spent on creating reports in the past per year | | | | | Percentage of time saved | | | | | Fully loaded hourly CISO salary TEI standard | | | | | Subtotal | | | | Recalculate *icon back* | Time savings in human risk analysis Metric | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Time spent in creating human risk analysis report (hours/year) | | | | | Percentage of time saved | | | | | Fully loaded hourly IT security staff | | | | | Subtotal | | | | Recalculate *icon back* | Savings in answering security audit questions Metric | Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reallocated resources for answering security audit question from clients/partners (FTE) | | | | | Average fully loaded salary of IT security FTE | | | | | Subtotal | | | | Recalculate # Helping customers achieve 359% ROI on their email security - Detect and neutralize advanced inbound and outbound threats to email security to reduce risk - Improve reporting and visibility - Save your organization time and money [View Forrester's Total Economic Impact of Egress Report](https://www.knowbe4.com/hubfs/Forrester-Total-Economic-Impact-of-Egress-Report.pdf) ## Generate your report Download now ![](https://www.knowbe4.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/knowb4-s2-theme/modules/egress-tools/tei-calc/images/PDF-illustration.svg) ![](https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/viewthroughconversion/978904139/?guid=ON&script=0)