Re: financial loss estimates?

[Adam Pal <pal_adam () gmx net>]

Hello Fire0088,


Personaly i consider this task being dificult up to impossible. Why?
Because companies does not like to list/share such kind of impacts as it
would lead to increase the financial damage.
I use to consider 2 factors when i talk about impacts you named
bellow:
- the financial impact of the incident itself (costs for change bank
accounts, exchange credit cards, inform employees, etc)
- the financial impact caused to the image of the company

The first one is calculable while the 2nd one ist not, having a good
PR could save you but depending on the propagation it could be
critical for your company.


-- 
Best regards,
 Adam Pal   

Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 4:05:16 AM, you wrote:

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ffc> I'd like some of the findings I've reported to be converted into
ffc> a more manager friendly metric (there are three things a manager
ffc> focuses on: moving up the corporate ladder, pretty charts and money).

ffc> Are there industry standard rates, or case studies on the true
ffc> cost to a business for a data breach?

ffc> Specifically, i'm looking for the impact from a data breach
ffc> involving financial information (bank accounts, loan info, credit
ffc> card numbers, ect), social security numbers, and employee IDs.

ffc> Thanks

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