Your IT Budget Is a Strategic Investment
(Not a Cost Center)
A practical, SMB-focused playbook to align spend with risk, growth, and compliance.
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM PST
What You’ll Learn:
In this practical, no-fluff session, you’ll learn how to
- Turn budgeting from a once-a-year scramble into an operating rhythm that cuts downtime and surprises.
- Make a compelling business case using risk, ROI, and “cost of downtime” (with a simple formula any team can use).
- Fund the highest-value controls first (identity/MFA, device health, backups, monitoring) and plan a Zero Trust path without bloat.
- Build Technology Lifecycle Management (TLM) into the plan so gear ages out predictably (no more “silent bleed”).
- Satisfy compliance and cyber-insurance asks with evidence you already collect—no chaos.
Who Should Attend:
- Owners, CFO/COO/Controllers, IT/Ops leaders at SMBs—especially in Seattle/Everett, Phoenix, and Kalispell.
Why Succurri?:
Succurri has been helping SMBs across construction, healthcare, architecture, financial services, and beyond secure, modernize, and grow through technology.
Our vCISO (Grant Eckstrom) and vCIO (Andrew Eckstrom) bring decades of experience guiding businesses through IT strategy, compliance, and security challenges.
- Proven SMB outcomes: fewer outages, clearer budgets, calmer audits.
- Built for hybrid teams in Seattle/Everett, Phoenix, and Kalispell.
- Get the slide deck + budgeting checklist after the session.
Presenters
Grant Eckstrom
vCISO
Tony Lael
Fractional CMO
Moderator
Andrew Eckstrom
vCIO, Partner
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- How Anti-Virus Is Being Replaced by Zero Trust (align budget to strategy, not costs)
- What Is CMMC Compliance & Certification (budgeting for compliance requirements)
- CMMC 2.0 Levels: Who Needs Them (scoping spend to level/contract)
- FAR 52.204-21: What It Means for Your CMMC Compliance (budgeting for base)
- Business Network Security Checklist (budget to close foundational gaps)
- What Is Cyber Security Awareness Training (human-risk ROI & compliance)
- 10 Benefits of IT Support Services (#1: manage IT budget predictably)
- How Your Cash Flow and IT Are Linked (finance + IT planning narrative)
Get Access to the Recording!
Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner!
Registrants are entered to win a network vulnerability test worth $15,000 at no cost or obligation. Succurri guarantees to show you at least 1 critical security vulnerability that will jeopardize your business using AI or we’ll provide you and all your staff with lunch, on us.
Grant Eckstrom
MSSP, Partner
Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner!
Registrants are entered to win a network vulnerability test worth $4,500 at no cost or obligation. Succurri guarantees to show you at least 1 critical security vulnerability that will jeopardize your business using AI or we’ll provide you and all your staff with lunch, on us.
Tony Lael
Fractional CMO
Moderator
Andrew Eckstrom
vCIO, Partner