Considerations about Costs and Return on Investment
It’s clear that protecting your information resources is a necessary and vital part of doing business. But how much will it cost? How much should you reasonably plan to spend over time, what will be the return to you for that investment?
This article offers a clear (non-mathematical) explanation of what’s known as Security ROI (Security return on investment). The article defines what it is and how it's calculated. The article was written by Stephanie Losi, a graduate student at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.
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For another treatment of the same issue, see this article at ComputerWorld.com. It offers some formulas as well as an explanation for calculating IT Security ROI. The author is Marcia Wilson, founder and CEO of Wilson Secure, LLC.
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