Estimating the cost of a security incident in an organisation, business or institution is a difficult task, that’s why NPSA has developed a bespoke tool to help security managers in the UK obtain a realistic estimate of the cost of losing a critical asset – the Asset Cost Estimation Tool (ACET).
Requiring only three key pieces of information; annual turnover, estimated number of full-time employees and business sector, the tool can:
- Help you to identify your critical assets, be it people, processes, information, technology or facilities
- Deliver an estimate of financial loss should any of these assets be affected by a security incident
- Provide sector-specific industry standard estimates for those who do not have detailed figures
- Quickly provide users with an estimate of their overall percentage loss, alongside a breakdown estimate for each identified asset
- Produce user-friendly downloadable graphs and charts enabling users to visualise estimated losses, reasonable worst-case scenarios, and exposure per asset
- Provide users with a comparison to other organisations in their selected sector where sufficient open source data is available
