• edric
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    101 year ago

    It’s such a pain in the ass presenting and justifying budget requests when the people who decide only see $$$. It’s always “Why do you need this much? We’ve been doing fine the last couple of years.”. The only way to get them to understand is to talk to them in $$$-speak. Like, “This is the amount of the money and reputation you are risking to lose if something happens because we didn’t spend for this.”

    • @Hazdaz
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      41 year ago

      You have to talk-the-talk.

      You don’t talk about Gigabytes and megabits-per-second and megawatts with sales people and executives. You need to turn things around and talk in terms of money and man-power. If it frustrating that you have to do that, but it is the best way to get through to people.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        There is no finite dollar value associated with security breaches so there isn’t exactly a way to quantify it. Intangible benefits that are difficult to express in dollar values are often hard to present to one-dimensional money managers.