Budget options to secure your Killer Applications
by Sachin Varghese
| 26 Nov 2009
| 1. |
Periodic Vulnerability Scanning*
(Catch network and standard application level vulnerabilities) |
~$150 |
| 2. |
Periodic Application Scanning*
(Catch application level vulnerabilities like SQL injection, CSS etc.) |
~$500 |
| 3. |
Periodic Application Penetration Test*
(Comprehensively catch application level vulnerabilities like SQL injection, CSS etc. including business logic security flaws) |
~ $750 |
| 4. |
Periodic Security Code Review* (Replaces 2 & 3)
(More comprehensive than 2 & 3 and also catch accidental / deliberate Backdoors in your source code) |
~ $1000 |
| 5. |
Daily Website Malware Scanning
(Catch malware infections on the publicly accessible pages of your websites) |
~ $50 |
| 6. |
Developer Training* on Secure Coding Guidelines
(Reduce security bugs by educating developers) |
~ $500 |
| 7. |
Security Log Monitoring*
(Monitor your webservers, firewalls, routers etc. on a real time basis to catch and deflect security attacks as they happen) |
~ $1000 |
| Budgeting Guide | Per Month (US$) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum Budget | → | Go for 1,2 | ~ $650 |
| Modest Budget | → | Go for 1,3,5,6 | ~ $1450 |
| Recommended Budget | → | Go for 1,4,5,6,7 | ~ $2700 |
* — Recommended by PCI DSS.
Estimates are based on scopes we have seen amongst start up and mid size software companies with revenues less than $50M
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