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How can you separate necessary security upgrades out from the $18m? $100k wouldn't be enough to maintain a single critial app securely for more than a couple of
by albertgoeswoof 7y ago
How can you separate necessary security upgrades out from the $18m? $100k wouldn't be enough to maintain a single critial app securely for more than a couple of years.
If you're running a bunch of critical services you need to secure them, and that takes millions every year, it's unavoidable. A single hack that exposes this is irrelevant
- jrochkind1 7y agoIt is true that the cause of the pain is that they haven't been running their IT in a secure fashion, and this is the real problem. I don't know how much of the money/time that will be spent (the "$18 million" figure is entirely imaginary) to instead try to recover their data/systems to functional... but I don't think it's a great use of money. But indeed, actually running secure systems is what they got to be focusing on, and will be expensive. I think many organizations are going to find that they can't actually afford to do what's needed to reliably run the systems they already rely on, having not been running them reliably or securely. I hope that the 'recovery' efforts, done in an emergency fashion, don't distract them from getting to that point and figuring out what they're going to do about it.