Threat | Size cont’d

• 2000 survey of 4,900 IT professionals across 30 nations

  • InformationWeek and PricewaterhouseCoopers, July 2000
  • Only 50,000 US firms large enough to be impacted by and able to accurately tally to cost of software viruses
  • US impact: $266B
    • Represents 2.5% of Gross Domestic Product
    • Much more than $15B estimated for 1999, different methods
    • Lost productivity: ~7,000 person-years
  • Worldwide impact: $1.6T