Ransomware Calculator
The below calculator will provide you with an estimate of your cost of recovering from a ransomware attack. The questions are designed to frame the circumstances around your specific attack and company details. Though we have included the most important variables within the calculator, there may be some others that could impact your total costs. We have broken down costs into several parts, from just getting minimal critical functions back online to most (but not all) other vital systems online. Full clean-up, remediation and hardening of the network is not within the scope of this cost estimator. Recovering from a ransomware attack is costly and stressful, but Alvaka hopes to provide you with the information and tools possible so that you can be prepared for what to expect.
If you are fortunate to not have been a victim of ransomware, this calculator can still serve as a tool to show costs of a potential attack and justify to your management team the benefits of investing further into cybersecurity. Read our “Reduce the Risk of Ransomware & Other Cyber Attacks” blog for a list of steps you can take to better protect your company.



You want to enter in a fully burdened labor rate for this field. What that means is that you want to take the base hourly rate, plus 25-30% for employer payroll taxes, benefits, vacation/holiday time, etc.
Smoke testing is a type of software testing performed by Alvaka after a software patching sequence to ensure that the system is working correctly and to identify any misconfigurations or conflicts within the patched system.
This is a basic cost calculator for you to compute your typical monthly cost for patching your servers, PCs, laptops, tablets and associated application software. It also forms the basis for you to begin calculating your Return on Investment for software patching, or for comparison with alternatives to the manual process of patching operating systems and application software—such as Patch Management as a Service, also known as Vulnerability Management as a Service.
Smoke testing is a term used to describe the testing process for servers after patches are applied.