A security analyst has been asked to develop a quantitative risk analysis and risk assessment for the company’s online shopping application. Based on heuristic
information from the Security Operations Center (SOC), a Denial of Service Attack (DoS) has been successfully executed 5 times a year. The Business Operations
department has determined the loss associated to each attack is $40,000. After implementing application caching, the number of DoS attacks was reduced to one
time a year. The cost of the countermeasures was $100,000. Which of the following is the monetary value earned during the first year of operation?
A.
$60,000
B.
$100,000
C.
$140,000
D.
$200,000