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Cost/Benefit Analysis of Airline Security

2008-07-21 05:53:15 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...costs and benefits of United States aviation security measures" by Mark Stewart and John Mueller, is excellent reading: The United States Office of Management and Budget has recommended the use of cost-benefit assessment for all proposed federal regulations. Since 9/11 government agencies in Australia, United States, Canada, Europe and...
 
Tags: cost-effective, cost-effective security measure, cost, cost-effective measure, opportunity cost, cost-benefit analysis, additional cost, cost-benefit assessment, benefit
 
 
 
 
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Cost of vulnerability

2007-03-05 21:19:05 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...cost of vulnerability I was deeply upset by his remark. Though it could have easily turned into a heated exchange I restrained myself and walked back to my cube. One among the top management happened to pass by my cube, he looked at the demo scenario and exclaimed "this really sucks!". Eventually the vulnerability was acted up on and a fix...
 
Tags: vulnerability, vulnerability determines, cost, demo scenario, easily, easily hijack, extremely brilliant, preserve company, bullet proof
 
 
 
 
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Cost/Benefit of Terrorism Security

2008-09-12 06:32:33 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cost of feeling safer ," from the Sydney Morning Herald : Sandler and his colleagues conducted an analysis of the costs and benefits of five different approaches to combating terrorism. I must warn you that, because of the dearth of information, this study is even more reliant on assumptions than usual. Even so, in three cases the cost of the...
 
Tags: measures involves costs, costs, measures, cost, benefits, produce benefits, pro-active measures, entail costs, additional defensive measures
 
 
 
 
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Nashville laptop theft may cost $1 million

2008-01-14 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
The theft of a laptop containing Social Security numbers of Nashville, Tennessee, area voters is expected to cost local officials about US$1 million as they roll out identity-theft protection to those affected
 
Tags: theft, identity-theft protection, cost local officials, laptop, nashville, social security, us1 million, roll, voters
 
 
 
 
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Hospitals reduce cost of electronic medical records

2008-01-15 00:00:00 by Jon Brodkin in Network World on Security
 
Replacing paper medical records with electronic ones can reduce errors, and save lives, but cost and complexity prevents most doctors from upgrading
 
Tags: paper medical records, cost, complexity prevents, reduce errors, save lives, electronic, doctors
 
 
 
 
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The cost of a code signing certificate

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2008-01-17 07:31:00 by Keith Brown in Security Briefs
...cost to the consumer I don't like tithing to my certificate authority any more than the next guy, but buying a "cheap" cert is more costly in the long term. If you need a cheap certificate for testing or for personal reasons, issue it yourself! If you need a real certificate, your best bet is to stick with a vendor that your customers already...
 
Tags: code, cheap, cheap code, cert, root store, root, philosophical question, issue, install
 
 
 
 
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Homeland Security Cost-Benefit Analysis

2008-07-17 06:43:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Costs, Benefits, and Probabilities of Protecting the Homeland," it lays out some common send premises and policy implications. The premises: 1. The number of potential terrorist targets is essentially infinite. 2. The probability that any individual target will be attacked is essentially zero. 3. If one potential target happens to enjoy a...
 
Tags: potential targets invulnerable, potential targets, targets, protection, invulnerable, protection measures, paper, paper attempts, potential terrorist targets
 
 
 
 
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Addressing Cost Issues in the Ever-Changing World of Compliance

2008-07-25 00:00:00 by Paul Davilman in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
We keep hearing from analysts that the cost of compliance should go down each year but unfortunately our customers are telling us the exact opposite. They are continuing to get slammed by new regulations and feel compelled to implement all types of point products & solutions in order to meet immediate needs
 
Tags: compliance, cost, exact opposite, types, regulations, implement, analysts, solutions, customers
 
 
 
 
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Cost-cutting, greater efficiencies to be topics at SNW

2008-10-13 04:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
As the Storage Networking World conference opens in Dallas this week, it's likely that the recent stock market and financial sector upheavals will have attendees more interested than ever in cost savings
 
Tags: financial sector upheavals, recent stock market, cost savings, world conference, attendees, week, storage, dallas
 
 
 
 
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The asymmetry of data loss - data thief has an upper hand

2008-10-01 06:33:22 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...cost of sensitive data breach for a large size company is about $50,000. I am attempting here to think about this in simple mathametical terms There is a data breach. From the data owner's perspective the loss is Loss = Cost to protect data + Loss of business due to data theft aka cost of competitive disadvantage From the data thief's...
 
Tags: data owner perspective, data owner, data, thief, owner, data freshness factor, data protection costs, discourage data thief, protect data