On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:35:14AM -0500, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > On 2/17/2014 11:10 AM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > Could some of the professionals here please estimate a direct dollar cost > > for > > such a thing? > > > > Who is going to pay for the design and estimation efforts? > > There are many approaches that can be used but before selecting one over > another it is important to perform a threat analysis to determine which > risks the solution must protect against and what the use cases are. > > For any estimate to be reasonable there will need to a work break down > of the implementation tasks. > > It would not be unreasonable for such a design analysis and work break > down to cost $10,000. > > An implementation that could be used by banks or government agencies > would easily cost hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars and take a year > or more. > > Jeffrey Altman >
So $10k for design, and $100k for implementation sufficient to protect a small business's data worth between $250k, and $1M. Does that sound reasonable? Do you think a 10X scaling factor for data protection is reasonable, as in $100K will protect data worth $1 million? If it's going to take a year, I should have plenty of time to figure out how big of a mining farm I need to make the money to pay for it :P ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' [email protected] 7 elements earth::water::air::fire::mind::spirit::soul grid.coop Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, nor try buy a hacker who makes money by the megahash _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
