Question

Some article discussed the costs companies face defending their networks from attack. The following table provides the breakdown in costs:

Cost

%

Consulting

7.6

Hardware tools

8.2

Labor

25.9

Lost business/revenue

23.6

Nonproductive employee time

15.5

Software tools

14.2

Other

5

Total %

100

a) Construct a bar chart, a pie chart, and a Pareto diagram.

b) Which graphical method do you think is best to portray these data? Explain

c) What conclusions can you reach concerning the costs companies face in defending

their networks from attacks?

Answer 1

b) According to me pareto chart is the best display to the data as it contains both bar graph and a line graph, where individual values are represented in descending order by bars, and the cumulative total is represented by the line.

c) The costs companies face in defending their networks from attacks is highest for the LABOR.