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posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 12 2016, @04:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the maybe-it's-more-than-pounds-and-pence dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

ENISA, the European Union Agency For Network And Information Security, has taken a look at “cost of cyber attack” studies and reckons they're not much good.

The agency is far too polite to put it that way, but in this report, it says there's no consistent approach to trying to quantify the cost of attacks on what it calls critical information infrastructures (CIIs).

“The measurement of the real impact of incidents in terms of the costs needed for full recovery proved to be quite a challenging task”, the report drily notes.

The study, The cost of incidents affecting CIIs, is a review [of] eleven expert reports, two internal studies (provided by security vendors to customers), two public studies, and two reports by ENISA partners. The source studies were dated between 2013 and 2015.

The agency says there's plenty of information about, but the studies it analysed “examines the topic from a different perspective, focusing on certain industries, using different metrics, counting only certain types of incidents etc. The lack of a common approach and criteria for performing such an analysis has allowed the development of rarely comparable standalone studies, often relevant only in a certain context.”


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @06:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @06:10PM (#387110)

    Only $250 million/day?

    C'mon people, if we make a script that keeps deleting and redownloading your entire music library, I bet we can push that over a $billion/day.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @09:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @09:15PM (#387172)

    You jest but I do exactly this. I don't have a music library. I stream everything. Billions of bytes per day.