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SCP-2242 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-2242
Expected annual
$4.6M
One-time setup
$6.2M
Annual recurring
$4.5M
Personnel
17
One-time setup and containment buildout are substantial (~$6.2M) driven by secure replacement development, archival/reserve funds, and specialized equipment; recurring yearly costs are ~ $4.54M driven by research/monitoring, dedicated IT/security staff, and legal/retainer expenses.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $6.2M
Replacement Budget Reserve $1.5M
[#17] Reserve for replacement of irrecoverably infected hardware across the organization.
Secure Fos Replacement $1.2M
[#1] Secure FOS replacement development: engineering, secure QA, build servers, verification, staged rollout.
Insurance Reserve $1.1M
[#23] High-risk experiment insurance and reputational risk reserve (one-time fund).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $500K
[#10] Initial lab/HPC and research setup costs associated with a long-term neutralization/research program.
Contingency Initial $500K
[#15] Initial contingency reserve for organization-wide downtime/productivity loss.
Alternative Archival Initial $250K
[#9] Initial buildout of alternative archival systems (vaults, tape/optical infrastructure, printers/scanners).
Ml Development Initial $250K
[#12] One-time development cost to build/train automated classifier/ML models to detect SCP signatures.
Facilities $200K
[#4] Secure room construction and environmental controls for LAN (SCIF/HVAC/fire suppression).
Equipment $185K
[#3] Dedicated 12-station LAN buildout (hardened workstations, server, switch, KVMs, peripherals, secure OS licensing).
Forensic Dlp Initial $150K
[#7] Initial licensing/deployment of forensic, DLP and integrity-monitoring suite.
Imaging Rollback Initial $125K
[#8] Initial imaging/rollback farm and spare device pool hardware and validated air-gapped media.
Device Replacement Initial $120K
[#13] Up-front device fleet reimage/replacement costs (example-scale replacement/reimaging budget).
Training Initial $100K
[#22] Initial training, SOP development, and documentation creation costs.
Printing Initial $25K
[#20] One-time printing/analogue conversion setup (secure printers, microfilm/optical media initial run).
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.5M/yr
Research And Monitoring $2.3M/yr
[#2, #7, #8, #9, #10, #12, #13, #20] Ongoing FOS maintenance/patching, recurring DLP/license fees, imaging/media refresh, archival maintenance, multiyear neutralization research program operating budget, ML model maintenance, MDM licensing and ongoing printing/analogue maintenance.
Staff Wages $1.6M/yr
[#5, #6, #11, #24] Physical security staffing (guards/access admins), dedicated IT/monitoring team salaries, document audit labor, and program management salaries (salaries + benefits + on-call).
Cover Story And Legal $300K/yr
[#19] Legal retainers, cover story expenses, vendor-risk management and related covert operational costs.
Incident Response Retainer $200K/yr
[#14] Annual retainer for contracted incident response teams and rapid remediation capability (retainer portion; per-incident costs in scenarios).
Psychological Services $100K/yr
[#18] Ongoing psychological screening, clearance maintenance, and counseling for personnel with access.
Logistics And Transport $40K/yr
[#16] Secure transport and logistics for device reversion and research sampling (secure couriers, packaging, chain-of-custody).
Training And Sop $40K/yr
[#22] Annual refresher training, tabletop exercises, and new-hire onboarding related to SCP-2242 procedures.
Facilities Maintenance $30K/yr
[#21] Energy, UPS, increased cooling and facility overhead for secure systems.
Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.5M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major containment incidents; standard recurring operations only.
no incidents regular maintenance and research work
🚨 Minor Incident $4.8M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$250K vs baseline
Localized SCP-2242 manifestation or small-scale spread requiring rapid reimage and contractor surge.
localized spread to a subset of endpoints emergency rollback and overtime short-term productivity loss
🚨 Major Incident $7.5M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$3.0M vs baseline
Widespread contamination requiring extended remediation, large-scale replacements, and significant downtime.
organization-wide spread multi-site rollback/replacement extended downtime and reputational response
👥 Personnel 17 total
Role Count Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent 6 [#5] Six armed/cleared guards for 24/7 coverage (three shifts) including relief/coverage.
IT / Sysadmin / Technical Researcher 6 [#6] Dedicated IT/monitoring team: 1–2 senior sysadmins, 2–3 ops/sysadmins, 1–2 forensic analysts (on-call coverage).
Auditor / Compliance Reviewer 4 [#11] Document audit labor: 2–6 full-time auditors; mid-range staffing used.
Program Manager / Administrative Staff 1 [#24] Program management and cross-site coordination (project manager).
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes are detailed and enumerate nearly all cost drivers, but many line items have wide ranges and scale-dependence (single-site vs org-wide). Midpoint-based estimates were used where ranges existed, so uncertainty remains.
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