Conservative Scenario:
- On Average for next 5 years (so, next 12 months these might be worse but it will eventually recover and could show these averages over 5 years):
- 8% yearly Revenue Growth Rate.
- 22% Margin.
- 8% Risk Discount Rate.
- Security Breach is embarrassing and a big risk to a company positioning their products as a Security Appliance.However, other companies in the space have had similar breaches and lived to tell.There's my idea that a company in the Security Space OUGHT to publish their source code for review to inspire confidence that all possible bugs and exploits have been scrutinized, which renders moot hackers getting the source code since it's publicly available.
- This is an opportunity for the company to refactor and renew their codebase, appeasing concerns about the legacy code that was stolen, driving future product upgrade cycles and instilling confidence.
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