SCP-3568 — SCP-3568 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-3568 Keter ~ medium confidence

SCP-3568

Expected annual

$5.2M

One-time setup

$11.6M

Annual recurring

$4.9M

Personnel

One-time upfront costs dominated by secure facility, hardware, and a contingency reserve (~$11.6M total one-time). Recurring annual costs are driven by staff wages, global monitoring/R&D, and legal/cover operations (~$4.86M/yr baseline).

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $11.6M

Contingency Reserve $10.0M

[#23] Immediate emergency mass-response reserve (multi-million fund for large-scale propagation events).

Equipment $735K

[#1, #2, #4, #7, #8, #9, #11, #12, #19] Secure air-gapped servers/RAID backups, HSM purchase, hardened workstations, initial tactical vehicle fleet purchase, portable incinerator units, secure printers, forensic imaging/recovery hardware, degausser/shredder/crusher units, secure-communications hardware.

Legal Liability Reserve One Time $500K

[#26] One-time legal/settlement reserve to seed liability funds for initial potential claims.

Facilities $200K

[#3] Construction/modification of a SCIF/high-security vault for physical media storage, environmental controls, access logging and SCIF certification.

Training Curriculum Development $150K

[#18] One-time development of memetic-safety curriculum, no-recording SOPs and initial simulation materials.

Initial Research And Lab Setup $30K

[#4] Deployment and validation of secure OS images, hardened workstation images and initial secure-lab configuration for experiments.

Redundancy Cold Backup Initial $30K

[#24] Initial cost for cold backup storage, sealed custodial copies and disaster-recovery seed.

Secure Printer Initial Supplies $2K

[#9] Initial stock of UV-activated ink and compatible paper for secure printing.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.9M/yr

Staff Wages $1.4M/yr

[#5, #6] Salaries and fully-loaded costs for specialized containment staff and field containment teams (operators, custodians, crypto custodians, MTF/agents).

Research And Monitoring $1.2M/yr

[#14, #25] Cyber threat-monitoring/SOC infrastructure and R&D for filters, detection and memetic-dampening tools.

Cover Story And Legal $900K/yr

[#15, #16] Emergency takedown legal team retainers, platform liaison, and counter-dissemination / cover operations retainer budget.

Logistics And Transport $200K/yr

[#7, #6] Vehicle operations, fuel, maintenance and logistics for field teams and evidence transport.

International Legal Diplomacy $200K/yr

[#28] Retainers and budgets for cross-border takedowns, international counsel and diplomatic coordination.

Insurance And Reserves $150K/yr

[#26] Annual liability insurance premiums and contributions to ongoing legal reserve funds.

Audit And Red Team $120K/yr

[#21] Regular audits, external red-team leakage attempts, insider-threat monitoring and forensic sweeps.

Personnel Replacement $100K/yr

[#29] Recruiting, background checks and clearance costs to mitigate attrition for high-clearance roles.

Mental Health Care $75K/yr

[#20] Ongoing psychological screening, counseling and memetic debriefing for exposed/at-risk personnel.

Administrative Overhead $75K/yr

[#27] Documentation, redaction services, recordkeeping staff and software for censored records and audit trails.

Facilities Maintenance $50K/yr

[#3, #24] Ongoing maintenance, certification and environmental control costs for vault/SCIF; rotation/audit of disaster recovery storage.

E Waste Disposal $50K/yr

[#12, #13] Costs to legally process and recycle destroyed electronics, per-device disposal and hazardous handling depending on incident volume.

Training And Drills $50K/yr

[#18] Annual recertification, refresher courses and incident simulations for memetic-safety and field teams.

Law Enforcement Coordination $50K/yr

[#22] Ongoing coordination reimbursements, secondments and routine joint-task force support budgeting (per-incident top-ups in scenarios).

Portable Incinerator Maintenance $40K/yr

[#8] Maintenance, fuel and permitting (or clandestine disposal budgeting) for mobile incinerators/field destruction devices.

Physical Media Monitoring $30K/yr

[#17] Surveillance, liaison with postal services and commercial print shops, buyouts and monitoring of physical leak vectors.

Forensics Licenses $20K/yr

[#11] Annual licenses, updates and subscriptions for forensic imaging and triage software.

Secure Communications Maintenance $20K/yr

[#19] Maintenance and replacement for secure comms, lockboxes, RF shielding and device-surrender infrastructure.

Archival And Legal Recordkeeping $20K/yr

[#30] Long-term redacted archives, immutable audit logs and legal storage costs.

Hsm Maintenance And Tokens $6K/yr

[#2] Annual HSM maintenance, token/smartcard replacements and rotation/audit costs.

Supplies And Consumables $5K/yr

[#9, #10] Consumables for secure printing and small-volume specialty supplies (UV ink, paper, nested envelopes).

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.9M/yr

90.8% probability / year

Normal year with routine monitoring, maintenance, training and no major dissemination events.

no confirmed external propagation scheduled training and audits

🚨 Minor Incident $5.7M/yr

8.0% probability / year +$800K vs baseline

Localized leak or small propagation event requiring rapid-response teams, extra takedown/legal action and targeted remediation.

single-site leak small online propagation isolated mailed copies

🚨 Major Breach $16.9M/yr

1.0% probability / year +$12.0M vs baseline

Regional multi-site dissemination requiring prolonged field operations, large legal campaigns, international coordination and mass device seizures.

regional dissemination coordinated mailings or viral online spread cross-border hosting

🚨 Catastrophic Propagation $104.9M/yr

0.2% probability / year +$100.0M vs baseline

Wide, sustained global propagation requiring national-scale emergency response, mass compensation and long-term recovery.

global online leakage mass mailed dissemination failure of containment and cascading propagation

👥 Personnel 24 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	18	Three field containment teams of six agents each (rotations/on-call) for rapid response and seizures; included in staff_wages [#6].
Operator / Containment Technician	3	Dedicated on-site operators for air-gapped systems, hardened workstations and secure experiment handling; included in staff_wages [#5].
Key Custodian / Crypto Custodian	1	High-clearance custodian for AES-256 keys and HSM dual-control tokens; included in staff_wages [#2, #5].
Evidence Specialist / Forensic Technician	2	Forensic imaging and evidence handling personnel for device seizure and triage; included in staff_wages and forensics budget [#11].

📋 Confidence Notes

Analyst notes provide detailed line-item ranges allowing a reasonable baseline estimate, but wide ranges on incident/contingency costs and uncertain incident probabilities (propagation dynamics) reduce confidence to medium.

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