Its easy to place a dollar cost on a network breach, or is it? What is the true cost of a breach in security? Whats involved in recovery and resolution? That’s the question KnowBe4 tried to answer with their in depth look at the costs of a real network breach. Some of the intricacies are detailed below and that’s just a scratch on the surface.
Personally the hackers involved shouldn’t face jail time. In my opinion they should be sentenced to 5 years hard labor cleaning up the messes they make, with a penalty of an additional year for each hole they leave. See if they are so eager to make messes that they might have to spend years cleaning up again.
- 10 hours to select, order, configure and install a quality firewall
- 20 hours to build a new webserver, upload digital backups and bring it nearline
- 25 hours to scan all servers and workstations with several anti-malware tools to locate rootkits
- 15 hours to wipe and rebuild Windows on all workstations to ensure removal of all rootkits
- 10 hours to install anti-malware software on all servers and workstations
- 10 hours to bring the new webserver online and debug the initial problems
- 20 hours to repair things that broke during the rebuild, install drivers, bring printers back online, etc.
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