On 4 Mar 2002, at 10:37, Lubomir.Nistor@star-21.de wrote: > that's right, you have to do prevention, but how do you explain a > non-educated man what AIDS is? he doesn't even know what a virus > is. And telling him that he needs to use condome if it's not > convenient for him needs some persuation effords.. why should he > waste his money on something he didn't use before? that's the same > possition of a IT manager.. he doesn't know what is the price of a > hack attack and why should he waste money on something that he > didn't do before and he is not convenient with? I maintain that the relevant number is comparing the cost of a successful attack/penetration/infection against the cost of a prevention regimen, rather than dividing the money already spent on prevention by the number of known unsuccessful attempts. I do not claim that there isn't a cost/benefit argument to be made, only that a numerate IT manager who doesn't happen to be tech-savvy may find the proposed statistic unconvincing. > I've read a good book called selfish gene.. it explains the theory > about evolution.. where bad decisions or strategies lead to death > of that specific nature of genes or habits. SO if companies go > bankrupt due to hack attacks and IT managers who caused this > wouldn't get a job as IT manager (that's bad assumption), only > good IT managers would survive and be allowed reproduce (i mean > the knowhow :) to guarantee supply of good IT managers in future > :) > > lubo When an infectious agent is acutely fatal, that may slow its own spread -- but it also limits the opportunity for a species to evolve an immune response. (The AIDS metaphor is tragically appropriate, too, since it is much easier to develop a signature-based vaccine for an agent that has already been seen than to predict how it will next mutate....) DG --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private
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