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purchase price, installation charges, training costs, operational costs, and mainte-

nance costs. Each of these safeguard costs is described below:

◾ Purchase Price—Many technology-based safeguards are additional system

components that must be purchased. e purchase price is simply the cost to

purchase the safeguard component from the vendor.

◾ Installation Charges—Many safeguards have an associated cost for installing

or implementing the safeguard. e installation cost is the cost of integrating

the safeguard into the organization’s information system.

◾ Training Costs—e implementation and operation of many safeguards will

require that the organization’s sta ...