Re: computing the cost of incidents
From: lglover (lglover@shawus.com)
Date: 03/30/03
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From: "lglover" <lglover@shawus.com> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:44:09 -0500
"sam bailey" <usenet@entropymedia.com> wrote in message
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> 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. I know there
> were some serious disruptions in the case of slammer (trading desks
> closed at financial institutions, atms, credit card clearing systems)
> but I can't see it being more than the GNPs of many small countries.
>
> can anyone point me towards some resource or method for estimating
> these sorts of things a bit more realistically? I understand nobody
> can really say for sure on these matters I feel like there must be
> some way to come up with a rough picture of it. or if I'm off base
> here and these numbers are indeed realistic that information would be
> a great help as well. I worry about this because in news stories on
> security issues they often understate some risks and overstate others
> - I'm just trying to bring a bit of balance to the process. I'll read
> the group here and the email address in the header is valid - any help
> would be much appreciated.
>
> thanks.
> sam bailey
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