Comment Cost estimate based on improductivity (Score 1) 526
The is the cost of having people on your team making sure that the protection policies and software are up to date. If there were no theats companies would have this people doing something more productive.
For the companies that are vulnerable and get infected the costs are even greater, because once the virus is inside the company you will have most of your IT people cleaning the mess. Remove the virus machine by machine, you will have non IT people stoped, not working, because their PC is not OK.
And from my experience people don't pay attention to the warning e-mails or post-it notes telling them not to open suspicious files.
For the companies that are vulnerable and get infected the costs are even greater, because once the virus is inside the company you will have most of your IT people cleaning the mess. Remove the virus machine by machine, you will have non IT people stoped, not working, because their PC is not OK.
And from my experience people don't pay attention to the warning e-mails or post-it notes telling them not to open suspicious files.
