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Is Security Worth It?. Alex Lauerman. Who is Alex?. FishNet Security Veracode TrustFoundry SecKC. Why am I talking?. Don’t like security being a checkbox I want security to be driven by its value Want to do better at the stock market Goal is to help understand cost of insecurity.
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Is Security Worth It? Alex Lauerman
Who is Alex? • FishNet Security • Veracode • TrustFoundry • SecKC
Why am I talking? • Don’t like security being a checkbox • I want security to be driven by its value • Want to do better at the stock market • Goal is to help understand cost of insecurity
What will I talk about? • Cost Factors of a Data Breach • Previous Research • My Research • Analysis of impact of data breach
What is a data breach? • Accidental or intentional loss of: • Personally Identifiable Information • Financial Information • Confidential Company Information • Intellectual Property • Health Information
What are the cost factors? • Incident Response • Communications • Compensation • Legal defense • Regulatory Fines • Indirect • Loss of productivity • Loss of customers • Lost competitive edge
Ways to measure cost of breach • Fixed • Per Record (Variable) • Add factors individually • Estimate based on previous breach costs
Sources of Breaches • datalossdb.org • databreaches.net • www.privacyrights.org • www.idtheftcenter.org • Google
Previous Research • Ponemon • Gold standard in data breach costs • Brush Creek Partners – Cyber Liability Insurance • Academic Sources • Risk Centric Security (YouTube “Deconstructing Data Breach Cost”)
Previous Research – Ponemon • Average cost of data breach $188/record (2013) • Average cost of data breach $201/record (2014) • Average number of records breached in US: 28,765 (2013) • “The results show that a probability of a material data breach involving a minimum of 10,000 records is more than 22 percent.” • “India and Brazil have the highest estimated probability of occurrence at 30 percent, while Germany has an approximate 2 percent rate of occurrence.”
Previous Research – Ponemon • Total Average cost per US breach: $5,403,644 (2013) $5.85 (2014)
Previous Research – Ponemon • Cost of data breach by size (2013)
Previous Research – Ponemon • Cost of data breach by size (2014)
Previous Research – Ponemon • Breakdown by industry
Previous Research – Ponemon • Customer churn
Previous Research – Ponemon • Cost of data breach per record – Causation or correlation? • Adobe example • Target example
Research – Brush Creek Partners • Leverage Ponemon research • Insurance cost is based on revenue and line of business • Retail Inexpensive • Healthcare & Financial - Expensive (fines) • Encourage or require good security • <10% of companies have cyber liability insurance
Previous Research – Risk Centric Security • Lots of charts • Direct Costs • DSW Shoes – ~$4.64 – 6.79 per record • TJX –: $1.90 – $2.12 per record • Heartland Payment Systems – $0.90 per record • Sony – $1.17 per record • Global Payments - $15.71 - $80 per record • South Carolina DoR - $3 - $5 per record
Previous Research – Stock Prices • Gatzlaff • -.84% 1 day after a breach • TomášKlíma • Data breaches impact stock prices • Hovav • Financial revenue most impact • Vandal attacks have lower impact • DoS almost no affect • Cavusoglu • 2.1% decrease in value in two days following the breach • Morse • Abnormal negative stock price returns • SecurityNinja
Delayed Impact - Target • Breach rumors Dec 18 • Announcement Dec 19th
Efficient Market Hypothesis • Stock prices reflect the information available • We can use this to determine the affect of data breaches • “maybe the market isn’t quite as efficient as you think” – Charlie Munger in response to Efficient Market Hypothesis
Quantitative Trading • Trading strategies based on quantitative analysis which rely on mathematical computations and number crunching to identify trading opportunities. --investopedia
Quantitative Trading Example • Security that holds gold (GLD ETF) • Track gold miners (GDX ETF)
Breach Trading Algorithm • Tracks stock prices in relation to the date of their security breaches
How to trade with this info • Short sell a company immediately following a breach • A data breach may be worth more to people who invest with that information
How to make business decisions with this • Need to understand factors • If your company is publically traded, factors should roughly add up to stock price • Use this algorithm to generate data for companies similar to yours
How to make business decisions with this • Threat model your organization • What could go wrong? • Examine data and estimate impact
Questions • Slides: trustfoundry.net • alex.lauerman@trustfoundry.net • @alexlauerman • 913.271.7789