Calcuating Loss

[Michael Schaefer <mbs () mistrealm com>]

Loss?

One of my biggest complaints is the way the industry "loses billions" 
whenever a virus or worm breaks out.

I mean, securing and maintain your server is not a loss. Installing and 
updating your anti virus or IDS package is not a loss. All of these 
things should have been done anyway.

If a server goes off line, I guess you could measure the revenue it may 
have produced as a loss, but technically, that is lack of income, not 
true loss.

If you see someone complaining about all the money they lost doing what 
they should have been doing all along, I just see spin. And politics.

M




> Michal Zalewski wrote:
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> > If we must toy with bogus marketspeak "equations", shouldn't E - at the
> > very least - numerically correspond to the consequences (loss?) caused by
> > an event, rather than being an event itself?
> >    

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