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SCP-5122 Unknown ~ medium confidence
SCP-5122
Expected annual
$2.9M
One-time setup
$30.0M
Annual recurring
$2.8M
Personnel
10
One-time setup and contingency reserves dominate costs (notably catastrophic reserve and containment room retrofit), while recurring personnel, R&D/monitoring, and legal/OPSEC budgets drive annual expenses.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $30.0M
Catastrophic Exposure Reserve $27.5M
[#25] Optional / worst-case contingency fund for large-scale remediation and legal/infrastructure response.
Contingency Reserve Seed $1.1M
[#20] Seeded containment incident reserve (operational contingency fund).
Software Development And Audit $380K
[#4] Custom access & append-only software development plus third-party code audit / formal verification.
Facilities $275K
[#1] Secure containment room retrofit / build (EM shielding, Faraday cage, tamper-evident locks, dedicated HVAC, fire suppression, UPS).
Equipment $222K
[#2, #3, #5, #10, #13, #14] Hardened server appliance, hardened human-only terminals, physical monitoring/access control installation, initial secure communications tokens, WORM hardware, hardware-destruction/quarantine setup.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $140K
[#11] Sandbox & detection lab build (air-gapped VMs, hardware sandboxes, controlled replicas).
Ai Blocking Initial Implementation $138K
[#12] Initial technical/policy implementation for blocking AI/automated access (netflow blocking, egress filtering, whitelists, agreements).
Clearance And Vetting Initial $125K
[#17] Initial vetting and background checks for assigned personnel (25-person team estimate).
Sop Development $80K
[#18] Training, SOP development, Bendato Protocol documentation and initial drills.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.8M/yr
Staff Wages $1.2M/yr
[#6, #7, #8, #9] Recurring personnel costs: custodians/curators, IT security/systems engineers, incident response/forensics retainer, intelligence/GoI analysts (salaries + benefits).
Research And Monitoring $1.0M/yr
[#11, #12, #19, #21, #22] Sandbox operation, ongoing AI-blocking audits/enforcement, external intelligence feeds, annual red-team audits/penetration testing, and limited R&D/mitigation work.
Contingency Reserve Replenish $200K/yr
[#20] Annual replenishment budget for the containment incident reserve as incidents consume funds.
Cover Story And Legal $175K/yr
[#16] Legal/cover story, OPSEC, rapid-response PR, and counsel budgets.
Insurance Indemnity $112K/yr
[#24] Insurance/indemnity and liability buffer to cover civil claims or contractor liabilities.
Logistics And Transport $50K/yr
[#14] Hardware destruction, quarantine operations, and associated logistics (annual operating budget).
Training And Sop Refresh $42K/yr
[#18] Annual refresher training, drills, and SOP updates for Bendato Protocol.
Clearance And Vetting Recurring $26K/yr
[#17] Recurring background checks, polygraphs, and clearance renewals for assigned personnel.
Secure Communications Service $20K/yr
[#10] Service and key management for secure communications and token systems.
Energy And Environment $20K/yr
[#15] Power for servers, HVAC, UPS maintenance and generator fuel.
Facilities Maintenance $10K/yr
[#5] Ongoing monitoring/onsite alarm integration and basic facility upkeep (CCTV monitoring contract).
Monitoring Logging And Worm Maintenance $6K/yr
[#13] Maintenance/storage costs for WORM audit media and append-only ledger upkeep.
Supplies And Consumables $5K/yr
[#23] Printing, physical ledger supplies & secure paper archive.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.8M/yr
93.5% probability / year
Normal operational year with no major containment incidents; routine monitoring, R&D, and personnel costs only.
no Bendato Event routine audits and training
🚨 Minor Incident $3.1M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$300K vs baseline
Localized Bendato Event requiring incident response, limited hardware destruction, extra legal/PR and temporary operational surge.
single-site Bendato Event forensic response and hardware replacement
🚨 Major Breach $3.8M/yr
1.0% probability / year +$1.0M vs baseline
More serious exposure impacting multiple systems or requiring extended remediation, litigation, and cross-site coordination.
widespread automated scanning by hostile programs multi-system compromise
🚨 Catastrophic Breach $12.8M/yr
0.5% probability / year +$10.0M vs baseline
Worst-case exposure to widely-deployed scanners/AI requiring large-scale remediation, geopolitically sensitive operations, and extensive legal/PR action.
mass automated ingestion by external AI fleets public exposure / systemic propagation
👥 Personnel 10 total
Role Count Notes
Custodian / Curator 2 [#6] Two full-time custodians/curators responsible for manual updates, monitoring access logs, and ledger maintenance.
IT Security / Systems Engineer 2 [#7] One-to-two full-time engineers to maintain air-gapped hardware, integrity checks, and approved patching.
Incident Response / Forensics Specialist (retainer) 3 [#8] Three on-call/part-time forensics/incident responders maintained on retainer for Bendato Events.
Intelligence / GoI Analyst 3 [#9] Analysts tracking Groups of Interest and situational awareness per the Bendato Protocol.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide ranges for most line items and explicit operational requirements, enabling a midpoint-based estimate; uncertainty remains due to wide ranges on contingency/catastrophic funds and site-specific variability.
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