Management Of Information Security
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Cost-benefit analysis:
- An evaluation of the anticipated losses that could be avoided from a control effort (benefit), compared to the anticipated costs needed to implement the control is called cost-benefit analysis (CBA).
- A CBA may be used to estimate (or evaluate) the value against the cost of a decision, project, or policy or to compare potential (or completed) courses of actions...
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