[Full-Disclosure] Calcuating Loss

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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Received on Tue May 11 09:14:50 2004