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How To Stretch Your Security Dollar
itwbennett writes "Taking an aspirin a day will keep you headache-free but it can also reduce your risk of heart attack. You're definitely getting your money's worth out of that bitter little pill. But experts say you can also get additional ROI from security, business continuity, disaster recovery and compliance investments, writes Daniel Dern in a recent article. In fact, you can get 'double or triple the value from "side effects,"' observes Jim Cuff, VP of strategy, Iron Mountain Digital. For example, tools purchased for compliance management can also help identify redundancies and other inefficiencies. Security appliances don't just provide security; they can also be used for performance and bandwidth management, and enforcing acceptable use policies. Or take the next step and use disaster recovery resources 'for part of your active environment, like load balancing, test and develop and QA, and backup, not something you have just in case,' urges Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst of the StorageIO Group. And for the ultimate bang for your buck, take your facilities and knowledge and turn them into an external business offering."
Since when do press releases merit posting on /.?
I don't quite get the asprin analogy, can someone give me a car analogy please? :)
Or follow the herd and move off-shore.
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No that there's anything wrong with that.
...after reading that terrible analogy.
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Problem with that is, when you need to use your disaster recovery to recover from a disaster, it won't have enough capacity--because you've sized yourself that your load needs your "regular" servers *and* your "disaster recovery" servers, and when you have just your "disaster recovery" servers, it'll all freeze up under a load it can't handle.
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'We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.' RPF
they can also be used [for] enforcing acceptable use policies.
I dunno, somehow it seems just wrong to say that on /.
Shutting down your computers improve your security, but you'll also get a girlfriend.
Actually, daily doses of aspirin can be harmful to many different sorts of individuals, though the parallel still stands, I suppose: just as many industry-prescribed security policies can have beneficial "side effects" for your business, they can also yield unintended consequences that generate more cost--and real risks (the feeling of security often leads to less of it!)--due to lack of careful planning or proper implementation.
I really hope, that that is not a normal attitude in the USA. I mean, I hope that everyone here is perfectly aware how any why this is a really fucked up way of thinking.
It's basically the same thing, as automatically filtering all error messages regarding the risk of hardware failures out of your log files. It keeps you just as "error free".
Oh, wait. No. It's even worse. Because aspirin has side-effects. Like causing stomach ulcers on daily intake, in people that have problems with its acidity. And many other things.
Oh, and making you addicted, because as soon as you stop taking them, the headache and all the other masqueraded problems come back with a 100% guarantee. And most likely even much worse.
Just as with pretty much every common pill out there.
Sorry, but I refuse to read the rest of TFS, when it's written by someone with that attitude.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
If someone talking about security starts to mention ROI, I tune them out. They don't know the basics about security.
When I talk security to upper management I never use the term ROI. That term is too steeped in revenue generation that you cannot separate the term from the expectation of increased sales or increased profitability.
Security is like insurance it protects against loss. Security (for almost all companies) never generates revenue, therefore it can never have ROI in the traditional sense.
Some security companies will try to say that the Return is [insert some intangible benefit here].
They should really sell it like insurance where they mention the protection from loss in tangible terms.
VP of strategy, Director of Marketing, etc. etc. for companies that sell Backup, Storage and Virtualization. And they are suggesting you implement those so you can justify the expense by showing security ROI. Nice. I agree with the central point being made, which is that the same HW can be used for security and other non-security purposes. The door that keeps out intruders also keeps out the cold. But please do not call that ROI. Ask any security person, and s/he will tell you that security has no ROI, or should not. That horse is dead. If someone is still peddling that security ROI cool-aid, ask them what is the ROI for the insurance they have. Or some pointy-headed boss is going to call his poor security guy and demand ROI figures for all the security projects. He may even demand that the firewall rules be mauve. http://www.andrew-eells.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/mauve.jpg
Taking an aspirin a day will keep you headache-free
Dear submitter,
Since you insist on doling out pharmaceutical advice be aware that your statement is utterly false. Fortunately you won't be held as accountable as we practitioners are. Lucky you. I could lose my house because of something like this.
You obviously have never heard of analgesic rebound headaches.
Just in case you don't believe me. There, I'm bored. You look for the rest.
A tip - if you have constant headaches, see your doctor instead of taking aspirin or some other analgesic every day.
Love,
A physician.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
... and be wary of strangers who knock. Make sure your home is well-lit outside and trim away the foliage from your windows.
Oh, computer security.
Nevermind.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
"Taking an aspirin a day will keep you headache-free"
No, actually it won't.
http://www.geoffreylandis.com
Aspirin can be addictive and dangerous to your health if taken in inappropriate doses. Curiously enough, the rest of what they have to say is complete bullshit also.
Security appliances don't just provide security; they can also be used for performance and bandwidth management, and enforcing acceptable use policies.
Slashdot just better hope that many of our employers don't find out about this.
But then I realized the cable was blue, so I only gave it one star. I hate blue.
If only the poster had tried quoting the opening of the (my) article proper,
"Like the airbags in your car..." rather than offering an example not found
in the article.
Of course, I can't think of an ROI for airbags when they're not being deployed for
safety reasons. Arguably a full-sized spare tire might be value-recouped, by
putting it into your tire rotation, although that may not be as good an idea as it used to be.
Daniel Dern (who wrote the article)
Daniel Dern - Freelance technology writer dern at pair{dot}com