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Your Turn At The Bar Again? Security Costs in a Pay Per Drink Cloud

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2008-05-01 20:55:26 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...costs and maintenance fees and you get whatever compute power you paid for. If you over-specify, you have excess computer power or disk - you are wasting money. If you under-specify, you may be forced to raid your rainy day budget and order new hardware A primary selling point of Cloud Computing is the pay by the drink billing model - you...
 
Tags: security costs, costs, runtime security costs, security runtime costs, security, security tool, security tool inefficiency, security tools plays, plays
 
 
 
 
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Compliance costs not slowing down - technology automation to the rescue

2008-01-28 13:34:00 by Ryan Shopp in practical risk management
 
...costs continue to be driven through applying people, not technology to the problem and the kicker from our perspective, measuring compliance performance remains largely a qualitative rather than a quantitative process. Only 55% of financial institutions reported using quantitative metrics, implying a limited application of process management...
 
Tags: technology, leverage technology automation, net income, compliance costs, primary costs continue, compliance labyrinth offers, people, process management tools, reduce people
 
 
 
 
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SOX compliance costs small companies $78K, less than expected

2008-01-10 00:00:00 by Jon Brodkin in Network World on Security
 
Complying with Sarbanes-Oxley costs an average of $78,474 for smaller public companies, less than government projections and less than 1% of the companies average revenue
 
Tags: average, companies average revenue, sarbanes-oxley costs, government projections, public companies
 
 
 
 
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The Hidden Costs of Data Migration

2008-03-20 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
...costs that may be encountered when data is moved.When replacing or consolidating systems and meeting constantly increasing capacity needs, data must be migrated from one place to another; it's become a routine task in most IT departments. However, with business and operational needs dictating that critical systems be available 24/7/365 and...
 
Tags: data migration, data, systems, critical systems, task, increasingly, routine task, increasingly difficult, heterogeneous environments
 
 
 
 
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Hannaford may not have to pay banks' breach costs under PCI

2008-03-27 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b30178 in Network World on Security
 
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Tags: payment card industry, time, hard time, malware expert webcasts, data security standard, white papers, costs, risk assessment, pci
 
 
 
 
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Security ROI

2008-09-02 06:05:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...costs is the same as increasing revenues. So while security can't produce ROI, loss prevention most certainly affects a company's bottom line And a company should implement only security countermeasures that affect its bottom line positively. It shouldn't spend more on a security problem than the problem is worth. Conversely, it shouldn't...
 
Tags: security, security countermeasures, countermeasures, incident, security incident, individual security countermeasures, security measure cuts, security measure reduces, security vendors
 
 
 
 
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Why even having health insurance is not enough anymore

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2008-05-04 15:13:07 by HASH0x8b625c8 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Costs ". The article details that with the hard economic times even people who have health insurance are being bitten by the ever rising costs of health care. Rising premiums, covering less procedures and care and charging more for prescriptions and medical care combine to put the bite on everyone. From my own experience here are 4 examples...
 
Tags: insurance, health insurance, premiums, employees insurance premiums, insurance company pays, regular insurance, insurance company, care, health care system
 
 
 
 
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Cost/Benefit of Terrorism Security

2008-09-12 06:32:33 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...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 action so far exceeds the benefits that doubts about the reliability of the estimates recede Because the loss of...
 
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The Point of Breach Notification Laws

2007-11-07 21:57:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...costs of the breach notification are worth the costs of disclosure. Or, more specifically, it isn't clear that the public notice with specifics-per-company is serving us perfectly. An anonymous repository of details and types of incidents would accomplish roughly the same public policy goal without all of the associated costs I'm not arguing...
 
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