Using the information from the previous questions, your company has also begun pricing the construction of a "green belt" around the facility as an alternative to the levy system. It will cost approximately $$15,000$ a year to maintain, but it would reduce the annual rate of flooding to once every $200$ years.

Using numbers, would establishing a green belt be a good idea compared to the levy?

Annualized Loss Expectancy $($pre$)$: $$

Annualized Loss Expectancy $($post$)$: $$

Annual Cost of the Green Belt: $$

$$

Annual Value of the Green Belt: $$

Which option is more profitable in the long run, the levy or the green belt? $$

Some experts believe that the main security threat to businesses over the next several years is the malware that surreptitiously encrypts the contents of secondary storage devices, with the perpetrators behind it demanding payment in exchange for restoring the content. This is commonly referred to as:

ransomware

spam

DDoS

phishing