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title="AntiVirus Scanners" tabindex="19">AntiVirus</a></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="500" summary="Equipment and Product Financing"> <tr> <td>  <table cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="200" align="right" summary="Excerpt"> <tr> <td height="5" colspan="2"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="5" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="5"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="5" /></td> <td width="175" valign="top" height=""> <img src="../img/financing.gif" width="182" height="192" border="0" alt="They told you it would only cost so much for your computer network..." longdesc="../img/financing.txt" /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="5" colspan="2"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="5" /></td> </tr> </table>  <h2 class="title">Computer Security<br />Equipment and<br />Product Financing</h2> <p class="body"><span class="branding">SecurityAppraisers</span><span class="symbol" >®</span> can arrange for financing of your security products and services. Even if one acquires only cost-effective security solutions, the entire array of security products that one frequently needs still might tax an organization's budget.</p> <p class="body"><strong><em>The question is not only whether you can afford a certain level of security; it is also whether you can afford the cost of a service interruption or permanent loss of information assets, due to computer vandalism.</em></strong></p> <p class="body">More business insurance policies are now excluding computer vandalism and hacking incidents. Special policies for 'hacking' coverage can be obtained, but these policies might cost much more than purchasing cost-effective security measures in the first place. In fact, many 'hacking' policies determine premiums based on existing security measures implemented by the policyholder.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <tr> <td> <p class="body"><b>The advantages of financing are:</b></p> <div class="body"> <ul> <li><p>Spreading out computer security capital expenditures over time reduces the financial risk of expenditure for any operating period.</p></li> <li><p>Lease interest payments might be tax advantageous for a business, since they are generally tax deductible.</p></li> <li><p>As equipment or products become obsolete, "trade-up" policies can be carried out, keeping your computer security infrastructure up to date (provided this option has been arranged in the initial lease paperwork).</p></li> </ul> </div> <p class="body">These are among some of the financing agents that <span class="branding">SecurityAppraisers</span><span class="symbol" >®</span> works with:</p>  <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="1" width="50%" align="center" class="productTable" summary="Financing Agents"> <tr valign="bottom"> <td width="100%" align="center" scope="col" class="columnHeading">Financing Agents</td> </tr> <tr height="87"> <td align="center" valign="middle"><a href="http://www.balboacapital.com" target="_blank"><img src="../img/balboa.gif" width="133" height="87" border="0" alt="Balboa Capital website" longdesc="../img/balboa.txt" /></a></td> </tr> <tr height="87"> <td align="center" valign="middle"><a href="http://www.cypress-financial.com" target="_blank"><img src="../img/cypress.gif" width="219" height="74" border="0" alt="Cypress Financial website" longdesc="../img/cypress.txt" /></a></td> </tr> <tr height="87"> <td align="center" valign="middle"><a href="http://www.ingrammicro.com/imdocs/display/main/1,,862,00.html#5" target="_blank"><img src="../img/Ingram.gif" width="87" height="75" border="0" alt="Ingram Micro website" longdesc="../img/Ingram.txt" /></a></td> </tr> </table>   <h4 class="heading">"Can I get a lease for security software products?"</h4> <p class="body">Yes.</p> <h4 class="heading">"Can I get a lease for a support contract?"</h4> <p class="body">A support contract can be covered by a lease so long as it is bundled with a product sale (hardware and/or software) and it constitutes no more than approximately one third of the sale.</p> <p class="body">Examples:</p> <div class="body"> <ul> <li><p>If you purchase server based firewall software for ~$2,000, and also purchase a rackmount server with <acronym title="Serial Computer Systems Interconnect">SCSI</acronym> <acronym title="Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks">RAID</acronym> and multiple <acronym title="Central Processing Units">CPUs</acronym> to run the software for ~$3,000, and an annual hardware support contract costs ~$500, that would still leave ~$2,000 that could be budgeted on the lease for firewall support.</p></li> <li><p>If you purchased sophisticated content inspection server software for ~$10,000, and purchased the same hardware as in the previous example, allowing for a ~$500 annual hardware support contract, that would still leave ~$6,000 in mail content inspection support contract costs that could be added to a lease.</p></li> </ul> </div> <h4 class="heading">"How much should we spend on computer security?"</h4> <p class="body">That is dictated by:</p> <div class="body"> <ul> <li><p>the potential dollar value impact that the loss of your computer resources would have on your business;</p></li> <li><p>how liberal a computer usage policy a company has (the more freedom users have to 'do what they want', the more difficult and costly a burden it is to maintain security; and some organization's work processes might require such freedom); and</p></li> <li><p>the security 'track record' of software being used by an organization (again, a sacrosanct computer business process might mandate use of an insecure piece of software -or it might not).</p></li> </ul> <p class="body">Translating these general guidelines into a number can be a daunting task; for most businesses, <strong><em>at least</em></strong> 20% of your overall 'IT' budget should be earmarked for computer security. In some cases, depending on the above criteria, this expenditure could need to run as high as 50%. Deployment of computer security measures in an unplanned, reactive manner (i.e., "waiting to be hacked, then doing something about it while you're under attack") could easily cost a business at least 50-75% of their annual 'IT' budget. These are anecdotal figures, and each business's outlay for unplanned reactive measures will vary.</p> <h4 class="heading">"Why should I believe that my business is really at risk?"</h4> <p class="body">We welcome you to use a search engine (searching on terms such as "computer break-in", "was hacked", "keystroke logger", etc.) and see the mounting losses caused by computer vandalism occuring daily; or <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/" title="Sysadmin, Audit, Network, Security" target="_blank">read a SANS newsletter</a>.</p> </div>   </td> </tr>  <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="500" summary="footnote"> <tr> <td align="center" class="bodysm"><span class="symbol">©</span> 2002-2004 SecurityAppraisers. 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