BBC tech feature: Foiling the fools and the fraudsters.
“Despite all the stories and scares about malicious hackers, computer criminals and destructive web worms, the biggest threat to the security of a company does not come from outside.”
If not malicious intentional acts from the inside, then investigators usually find pornography on 95% of all investigated machines. The feature mentions virus’ in brief but, states that intentional wrong-doing causes far more financial impact.
I’m not sure I can agree with that given the lenght of time it takes to remove virus’ from a network. Multiply that by the amount of personnel resources it takes to actually do the work. Then multiply that by the number of years spent fighting virus (I’m on my 10th or 11th year)… and your have an acurate cost. Something like:
TY + (VPY x N x S x IT) + (L x TY) = Total Cost of Virus
VPY = Virus’ Per Year
N = Number of Virus’
S = Number of Seats
IT = Number Of Techs
TY = Number of Years
L = Cost of Antivirus Software Licenes Per Seat
If most companies took time to acurately fill in that formula, then I would think this may offer slight dispute to what the above BBC feature claims. But, I’m just a geek in Flint, what do I know?