Quarterly Burn Rate
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The recurring cost of all active subscriptions in a given quarter. Buying a tool with a 50k oneTime + 20k quarterly cost adds 20k/quarter to burn for as long as you own it.
Where this term fits in a CISO program
Quarterly Burn Rate is one of 35 cybersecurity strategy concepts CISO Game models live. Quarterly Burn Rate 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
The fastest way to internalize Quarterly Burn Rate is to watch it move during a 5-year program. Start a free CISO Game run to see how this concept interacts with budget, hiring, and incident response across 20 quarters of strategic play.
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