What an attack would cost: the costed example of Ateliers Morvan
Fictitious example. Ekera links the applications, infrastructure and business processes of a fictitious industrial mid-sized company to answer three questions: where the risk lies, what the financial impact could be, which work to fund.
Demo · Ateliers Morvan, fictitious example
What could an attack on your information system cost?
A technical vulnerability does not, on its own, tell you which activities would be interrupted or what it would cost. Ekera links applications, infrastructure and business processes to answer three questions. Ateliers Morvan is a fictitious example: its figures are illustrative, uncalibrated demonstration assumptions set to show how the engine works, not computed by it.
AssessmentAteliers Morvan · fictitious example
81%of critical activity stopped in the worst attack scenario
Indicator
Baseline
After the work (simulation)
Maximum outage after an attack
81%
34%
Worst case
€2.4M to €4.9M
€0.9M to €1.8M
Estimated potential losses, per year (see note)
€150k to €980k
€40k to €260k
Weak entry points
5
1
Backups out of reach
no
yes
NIS2 measures assessed as in place
4.5 of 10
8 of 10
Single point of failure: the shipping workstation in Nevers. Dependency: maintenance contract, p. 4; no backup: backup report of 3 October.
Fictitious example · amounts: estimated potential losses, conditional on the assumptions used (illustrative figures, uncalibrated demonstration assumptions) · “after the work”: conditional estimates, not guaranteed risk reductions · NIS2 measures: NIS2 progress indicator (not a certification), on the measures assessed
1 · Where is the risk?
81% of critical activity stopped
The share of critical activities that the worst attack scenario would stop. Single point of failure: the shipping workstation in Nevers.
How it is calculated
Sum of the criticality of the business processes stopped in the worst attack scenario, divided by that of all modelled processes. A process counts as stopped as soon as a component it depends on is reached; the engine does not distinguish processes that are merely degraded. Example: shipping depends on a single workstation in Nevers; the dependency comes from the maintenance contract, the missing backup from the backup report, each with its date.
2 · What could the financial impact be?
€2.4M to €4.9M in the worst case
Estimated potential losses, conditional on the assumptions used (illustrative figures, uncalibrated demonstration assumptions): €150k to €980k a year. The estimates depend on the scenarios chosen, the data available and the calculation assumptions.
How it is calculated
The estimated potential losses add up, for each entry point and each single point of failure, estimated annual frequency × scenario loss. The range runs from low assumptions (frequencies, days of downtime, response costs) to high ones. The worst scenario is the loss from the costliest entry point.
3 · Which work should be funded?
Measures compared, for three budgets
The engine compares combinations of measures from its catalogue by cost and estimated effect on risk. After the work (simulation), the maximum outage would fall from 81% to 34%; your teams judge feasibility and approve the measures.
Conditions and NIS2 progress indicator
The “after the work” results assume these measures are carried out and produce the modelled effects: they are conditional estimates. Costs are orders of magnitude, to be confirmed by quotes. The NIS2 progress indicator (not a certification) counts the ten Article 21 measures: 1 point per measure in place, ½ if partial; it covers the measures assessed.
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Morvelle Industrie, a fictitious manufacturer: the map of its information system read from 17 documents, what an attack would stop, what it would cost according to the calculation engine, and three proposed investment scenarios for the company to validate. Subtitles in French.
Fictitious case: company, documents and figures are invented. Estimated potential losses, provisional calibration.
A first 30-minute call: framing your need, the possible scope and the list of information needed for the assessment. The initial assessment starts from your documents and exports, with no direct access to your information system.