Cumulative Overspend
The running total of every dollar spent above the annual budget across all years. Stays at 0 if you stay under budget; if it ever exceeds 1,000,000 you lose immediately.
Where this term fits in a CISO program
Cumulative Overspend is one of 35 cybersecurity strategy concepts CISO Game models live. Cumulative Overspend appears throughout the simulation — in the risk register, the investment catalog, and the mechanics reference — so a player encounters the concept in context rather than as an isolated definition.
See it in play
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