RE: How much does P2P cost businesses?

I'd doubt there are any definitive studies on this, but you can
reasonably ascertain the impact... 

X number of staff, of which Y% use P2P services, $Z burdened cost per
hour. 

Risk:  Illegal file sharing leads to lawsuit.  1% probability, huge
cost. 

Risk:  Users accidentally expose internal confidential information.  1%
probability, moderate cost (potentially high depending on your
environment).  

Risk:  Lost time spent dinking around with this stuff. 100% probability,
small incremental cost. 

Now you've got everything you need to make a valid assessment of impact
(except, perhaps, the back half of the equation -- what you would do to
stop it, and how that would impact the bottom line in comparison to the
original calculation... that delta value is your budget). 

Brennan




-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Merrick [mailto:joel@servicestyle.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 6:39 AM
To: security-management@securityfocus.com
Subject: How much does P2P cost businesses?

Hi all

I'd be interested if anybody has any links to reports or other
quantative info about how much P2P or other file sharing costs
businesses.

I've seen a couple of links in the past, however I can't find them.

Any help would be glady appreciated.

Many thanks,
Joel

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