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ROI of Security the debate continues..

2006-11-30 20:28:05 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
 
...ROI of security. This is what he says First, bear with me since I am still trying to build a coherent picture of security ROI for myself from all the diverse sources of info, some as smart as Pete Lindstrom :-) In general, I am leaning towards "there is no ROI for security; there are only cost savings I could not agree with him any less. You...
 
Tags: security, roi, security roi, doctor fees, doctor, doctor treats, doctor tells, additional days, security professionals
 
 
 
 
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OMG, Security ROI Comes Back - And It is Mad As Hell :-)

2008-03-11 00:58:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...ROI war." Counter-salvos have been fired as well The salvo is the paper called The Fallacy of Information Security ROI by Jon Pols ("ISSA Journal", February 2008) where Jon argues against the ROI for security (since there is no money earned by security, just saving which are NOT the same thing); Jon proposes "security as insurance" model...
 
Tags: security, roi, security roi war, pro-roi counter-point, roi proponents, information security roi, roi war, issa journal, return
 
 
 
 
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Risk ROI for Some Provisioning Solutions

2008-04-19 02:22:29 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...ROI on Provisioning in which he discusses the fact that, in addition to the traditional value propositions centered around increased efficiency and cost reduction, there are also significant risk management and oversight capabilities that can be had All provisioning solutions provide some facilities for Reduction of paper-based processes in...
 
Tags: information security, information, entitlement, entitlement lifecycle, solutions, systems, risk roi, information security podcast, identity
 
 
 
 
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Annual Blog Round-Up - 2007

2008-01-04 13:16:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...ROI saga that flared up mid-year is also among the most popular. Indeed, Security ROI Pile-Up! post made it into Top5 (the related posts are: The Entire Security ROI Blood Trail and ROI, ROSI, RROI and Harry Potter Tales ). The rest of my ROI-related posts are labeled here At the risk of destroying my math credibility, I will add an item #6...
 
Tags: blog, round-up, annual blog round-up, monthly blog round-up, security roi pile-up, roi, monthly, blog readers, top
 
 
 
 
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The Return on Investment for Securing Information

2007-08-13 00:00:00 by Sean Kline in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...ROI) of security. Amrit Williams has several links in his recent discussion of the topic. This reminds me of some work that I did with BearingPoint on the ROI of a Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a similarly challenging area in which to quantify value. The framework we used for justification involved underlying business initiatives,...
 
Tags: traditional roi metrics, roi, strategic drivers, distribution channels, difficulty, investment, risk reduction, return, business initiative
 
 
 
 
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Is security really a business enabler?

2008-05-01 08:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...ROI figures or metrics such as firewall logs showing the number of intrusion attempts. The problem with this is that the finance director will laugh your ROI data out of his office and nobody outside of the IT department is going to be a) interested or b) able to understand the significance of a pie charted extract of the firewall logs. If...
 
Tags: security, business, security professionals, metrics, meaningful security metrics, solid built-in security, financial services industry, business buy-in, services
 
 
 
 
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Monday Potpourri

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2008-06-09 10:04:18 by HASH0x8ae18f0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...ROI - McAfee announced that using the Forrester Economic Impact Calculator you can now easily find out your ROI from buying a McAfee product. They have a very nice diagram that I have pasted in here. They ask you to plug in a few numbers about type of security you want, desktops, laptops and servers and presto - they give you an ROI. I didn't...
 
Tags: platform, platform war, roi, security roi, security, viable platform, mac, financial analyst crowd, mac versions
 
 
 
 
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Monday Potpourri

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2008-06-09 11:04:18 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...ROI - McAfee announced that using the Forrester Economic Impact Calculator you can now easily find out your ROI from buying a McAfee product. They have a very nice diagram that I have pasted in here. They ask you to plug in a few numbers about type of security you want, desktops, laptops and servers and presto - they give you an ROI. I didn't...
 
Tags: platform, platform war, roi, security roi, security, webtop platform, mac, mac versions, viable platform
 
 
 
 
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Crude oil and gold at all time highs, US manufacturing at 5 year low, feel like buying some security?

2008-03-03 11:11:29 by HASH0x8b2f8e0 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...ROI (and lets not get into the "is there an ROI with security" stuff) or there is a compliance gun to their head, I believe that companies will slash and burn their security budgets as things get tighter So what is the answer? Not sure, but maybe hedge your bets by devoting more to international sales on the chance that they will not be as...
 
Tags: security, security budgets, time, bad times, times, budgets, bigger hit, hit, tough times business