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Re: Value of IDS, ROI
From: Vladimir Vuksan <vlists () veus hr>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 21:08:13 -0600
Jason Patel wrote:
I was wondering how big companies CIO show their executives Return of investment on IDS. What is the monitoring strategy for IDS alerts. I am trying to figure monitoring strategy and how to show my executive that how important job this is, but cant come up with a convincing solution. Anyhelp is highly appreciated.I would think this would be an easy argument to make :-). The way I would look at it is to figure out how would separate types of incidents affect productivity in an organization. For example virus outbreak takes down whole network resulting in 100 employees losing 8 hours of productivity. If IDS was present there would be only 2 hours lost productivity. So with IDS there is 6 hours less lost productivity due to early alerting, containment etc. In money terms than you can come with a dollar figure e.g. 6 hours times 100 employees = $XXXX. You may be able to find what the average number of security incidents for organization of your size on the net.
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- Value of IDS, ROI Jason Patel (May 03)
- RE: Value of IDS, ROI Ed Gibbs (May 03)
- Re: Value of IDS, ROI Vladimir Vuksan (May 03)
- Re: Value of IDS, ROI Bamm Visscher (May 04)
- RE: Value of IDS, ROI Eric Hines (May 06)
- Re: Value of IDS, ROI Bamm Visscher (May 06)
- RE: Value of IDS, ROI Pete Lindstrom (May 06)
- RE: Value of IDS, ROI Eric Hines (May 06)
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- Re: Value of IDS, ROI Bob Huber (May 03)
- RE: Value of IDS, ROI Angel L Rivera (May 04)
- Re: Value of IDS, ROI Jason Patel (May 06)
- RE: Value of IDS, ROI John Forristel (SunGard-Chico) (May 06)
- Re: Value of IDS, ROI Chris Byrd (May 06)
- RE: Value of IDS, ROI Federico Lombardo (May 11)
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