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Calculate Security Breach Cost Yourself

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That is both amazing and amusing (I will leave "why" to myself....) but now CxO does not have to think twice whether security services are too expensive. Check out this Security Breach Cost Calculator.

via https://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6176074.html?part=rss&tag=2063-10789_3-0&subj=news

For example, if MS corp network gets penetrated, having at hand it has 71,172 employees the resulting cost would be about $10M. And that is just in short run, the losses caused by damaged reputation would be much higher. Fortunately, leading analysts and professionals think we are doing good in that space (touch wood and hooray to SDL!!):

"...we actually consider Microsoft to be leading the software [industry] now in improvements in their security development life cycle and in how they handle vulnerabilities and release patches..
John Pescatore, vice president at Gartner", read full story here

"What the smart banks are doing about this is they’re building security into their development lifecycles, and that’s exactly what Microsoft has done," he [Mark Curphey] said.

Mark Curphey, vice president of professional services at McAfee’s Foundstone division ,  read full story here. Mark is founder of OWASP.org

 

 

Or graphically:

 

Direct link is here https://www.tech-404.com/calculator.html

Have fun calculating your losses. Or just start proactively implementing Security Engineering.

Need help? - try this Security Developer Center: Security Development Lifecycle for IT

 

Enjoy

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