Tool Without Team Effectiveness
The 30% effectiveness multiplier applied when you own a security tool but lack the staff to operate it (e.g., SIEM with no Detection Engineer). The biggest reason a $300k tool reads as a $90k tool on the posture chart.
Where this term fits in a CISO program
Tool Without Team Effectiveness is one of 35 cybersecurity strategy concepts CISO Game models live. Tool Without Team Effectiveness 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.
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