When you talk about CD singles your only talking about 1% of their sales. If there is a 10% decrease in 1% of your business, how much have you really been hurt? Also, when discussing such a relatively small segment of an enormous business process, is 10% really indicative of a downward trend caused by an external influence (Napster), or is it more likely that such a small dip is rounding error? Doesn't it make more sense to attribute the decrease to the more wide-scale economic slow-down or just a seasonal trend?
Peter Tippet, vice chairman and CTO of the International Computer Security Association (ICSA), gave keynote speach at the '98 International Virus Prevention Conference called "Virus Costs vs. Various Protection Strategies". The presentation was made available for download here (zip file). The presentation download included a spreadsheet with formulae and statistical data to calculate the quarterly or annual cost of virus activity for your enterprise.
Used in conjunction with the ICSA's annual Virus Prevalence Survey (available here) you should be able to update any '97 data and find out what viruses cost you today.
Both the IVPC presentation and the Virus Prevalence Survey are heavy on both statistics and supporting data.
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OK. I give up. Who's this Archer guy and what has he done with Capt. Pike?
And Scotty's oh so classic line:
"I canna break th' laws o' phyics, laws o' physics Cap'n!"
"Bones! He's......dying. You...must.............savehislife!"
"Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a physician!"
When you talk about CD singles your only talking about 1% of their sales. If there is a 10% decrease in 1% of your business, how much have you really been hurt? Also, when discussing such a relatively small segment of an enormous business process, is 10% really indicative of a downward trend caused by an external influence (Napster), or is it more likely that such a small dip is rounding error? Doesn't it make more sense to attribute the decrease to the more wide-scale economic slow-down or just a seasonal trend?
Peter Tippet, vice chairman and CTO of the International Computer Security Association (ICSA), gave keynote speach at the '98 International Virus Prevention Conference called "Virus Costs vs. Various Protection Strategies". The presentation was made available for download here (zip file). The presentation download included a spreadsheet with formulae and statistical data to calculate the quarterly or annual cost of virus activity for your enterprise.
Used in conjunction with the ICSA's annual Virus Prevalence Survey (available here) you should be able to update any '97 data and find out what viruses cost you today.
Both the IVPC presentation and the Virus Prevalence Survey are heavy on both statistics and supporting data.