Re: Calculating ROI for a Network/Security Practice

From: dcampbell@caci.com
Date: 03/29/02 

To: tom jones <p0rt_0@yahoo.com>, security-basics@securityfocus.com
From: dcampbell@caci.com
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:42:50 -0500

CIO magazine recently published an article in the ROI of security (
http://www.cio.com/archive/021502/security.html). It may lean towards the
theoretical a bit, but should give a reasonable, and empirically tested,
basis for determining ROSI.

                                                                                                                                       
                      tom jones
                      <p0rt_0@yahoo.com To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
> cc:
                                               Subject: Calculating ROI for a Network/Security Practice
                      03/28/02 01:53 PM
                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                       

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone had a good
process/methodology for determining the ROI for the
network/security practice. More specifically, how to
demonstrate to the executive level that a certain
technology is necessary in their terms: How will it
save our company money? I know this is rather vague
since most technologies will be looked at differently.
 For example, a tape backup system might be
communicated as the price to implement vs. the price
of 1+ "major disaters". How could you come up with
the price of a "major disaster"? Another example
(currently working with a client toward) is
implementing an Intrusion Detection System. How would
you demonstrate to managment that looking through
firewall logs all day is not as efficient or effective
as the monitoring of traffic "real-time" with the
added functionality of event analysis?

Thoughts and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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