The Single Loss Expectancy (SLE) is the dollar value of the…
The Single Loss Expectancy (SLE) is the dollar value of the loss that equals the total cost of the risk. In the case of this scenario, there are Y users who make an average of $Z per hour. Multiplying the number of employees who are unable to work due to the system being down by their hourly income, this means that the company is losing $A an hour. Because it may take up to four hours to repair damage from a virus, this amount must be multiplied by four because employees will be unable to perform duties for approximately four hours. This makes the SLE: _________.
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Questions 36, 37, 38 and 39 are with respect to the following case: San Antonio Cap Company has installed new network servers. There are 300 employees who use the network and make an average of $30 an hour, working on 150 workstations. One of the new servers provides a broadband connection to the Internet, which employees can now use to send and receive email, and surf the Internet. One of the managers read in a trade magazine that other Cap companies have reported a 75 percent chance of viruses infecting their network after installing T1 lines and other methods of Internet connectivity, and that it may take upwards of four hours to restore data that’s been damaged or destroyed. A vendor will sell licensed copies of anti-virus software for all servers and the 150 workstations at a cost of $5,000 per year. The company has asked you to determine the annual loss that can be expected from viruses, and determine if it is beneficial in terms of cost to purchase licensed copies of anti-virus software. In order to do so you have to calculate all of the following: (PLEASE WRITE ALL YOUR ASSUMPTIONS ON THE SIDE)
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