Re: Worms, Air Gaps and Responsibility

[Devdas Bhagat <devdas () dvb homelinux org>]

On 07/05/04 09:05 -0400, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
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> 800 to 1000 per what?
800 to 1000 USD per month for 5 people total.
I don't work there, hence the approximate numbers.

> > Flip the people/system costs and you will see what I mean. Bodies are
> > cheap, systems are not.
>
> Bodies are salary + 50% for benefits, etc.  AV can't be more than what,
> $60/node/year (Really, it's less than half that, but at retail box,
> single copy prices, we'll use that number.)
>
> That's $2400/year for licenses, add in $1200 for a gateway, and another
60*400 is USD 24000, not 2400.

> $1000 for 400 mailboxes of gateway AV- we've got $4600/year for 400 nodes
24000 + 1200 + 1000 = 26400 USD.

> of protection, desktop and main e-mail gateway.  If you're getting someone
> who's competent enough to clean out tricky viral programs for a
> loaded cost of $4600/year (so, ~75% of that,) then you're in a unique
I am saying 12000 USD is the cost of enough people to keep the network
running and staff working. I will not say it runs well, but it runs
enough to let people get their work done.

> spot.  If that single person can keep up with the infection rates when you
> get a mass infection, they're not likely to be around for long.
A mass infection is their only issue usually. And those are rare.

Devdas Bhagat
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