Re: computing the cost of incidents

From: Ron Ruble (raffles2@att.net)
Date: 03/29/03 

From: "Ron Ruble" <raffles2@att.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 13:35:35 -0500

"sam bailey" <usenet@entropymedia.com> wrote in message news:d1667b70.0303290906.ec1a432@posting.google.com...
> I'm doing some background research for an upcoming television program
> on computer security and in the process of reading all the interviews
> we've done with people in the field there's a wide variation in the
> damage estimates from more recent worms and things like slammer: from
> around hundreds of millions ($US) to hundreds of billions.
>
> I'm no expert on the matter but the higher-end numbers seem mighty
> inflated to me - they almost seem like they count the salary of
> everyone who's touched a system affected by the worm.

They also tend to overinflate the value of "intellectual property"

In one of the earliest hacking trials, AT&T tried to peg the cost
of a single document grabbed by the hacker at $23,000, making
it qualify for serious punishment.

The defense found out that the exact same document was available
to anyone who called AT&T, in pamphlet form, for $25.00 US.

http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~denning/infosec/Neidorf.txt

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