This is absolutely COOL Peter!! Nice work digging this up.

Question - how many records would you approximate on a given lost tape?

On 4/13/07, Peter Komarkowski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Want to know just how much a data breach is likely to end up costing your
> company? Darwin Professional Underwriters Inc. may be able to help.
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> The Farmington, Conn.-based technology liability insurance company has
> released a free online <http://www.tech-404.com/calculator.html
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> that it said allows businesses to estimate -- with a fair degree of
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> Darwin's Data Loss Cost Calculator uses proprietary algorithms developed
> with security breach data from media reports and other industry resources,
> according to the company. Among them was Ponemon Institute LLC's 2006
> security breach and cost-analysis survey of 31 companies that had suffered
> data breaches.
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> Basically, the calculator allows companies to get hard cost estimates in
> three major categories: internal investigation expenses, customer
> notification/crisis management costs, and regulatory and other compliance
> expenses. Companies input data in the respective fields in the calculator
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> get instant estimates for costs associated with breach-related activities
> such as customer notification, credit monitoring, crisis management
> consulting, state or federal fines, and attorney fees.
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> http://www.tech-404.com/calculator.html
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> Will only work between 1000 and 250000 records.
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> Happy calculating.
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> Peter D Komarkowski
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