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SCP-5319 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-5319
Expected annual
$1.7M
One-time setup
$467K
Annual recurring
$1.6M
Personnel
6
Initial one-time setup focuses on secure physical and digital archival hardware and limited facility retrofits (~$467k), while ongoing annual costs are driven by staff wages, cyber monitoring, legal/PR retainers, contingency reserves, and security/audit tooling (~$1.63M/yr).
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $467K
Veterinary Burn Facility Setup $200K
[#14] Specialized veterinary burn capability setup (equipment, retrofit for great-ape burn care).
Facilities $100K
[#3] Vault/secure archive room retrofit at Site-59 (environmental controls, intrusion detection, camera coverage, safe/cabinet).
Equipment $90K
[#1, #2, #4] Air-gapped archival server + WORM robot/media and enterprise HSM(s) and access-control hardware (biometric readers, smartcard systems).
Deletion Protocol Cost $75K
[#20] Certified multi-site destruction / authenticated deletion and forensic verification if authorized.
Policy Drafting $2K
[#13] One-off policy drafting for prohibition enforcement and interior facility procedures.
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.6M/yr
Staff Wages $570K/yr
[#5] Salaries and benefits for custodians/crypto admins (2), supervisor (1), cybersecurity analyst (1), zoo liaison (1), and veterinary specialist (1).
Opportunity Cost And Risk Premium $272K/yr
[#21] 20% overhead/risk premium applied to recurring operational costs to account for restricted staffing, slowed research, insurance-like reserves and administrative drag.
Cover Story And Legal $200K/yr
[#8, #16] Retained counsel, covert digital-remediation budget and PR/misinformation/cover-story campaigns and retraction actions.
Incident Contingency Reserve $200K/yr
[#9] Annual reserve to fund rapid incident response deployments and emergency contracts (maintained fund).
Cyber Monitoring And Ir $100K/yr
[#7] Web crawl and social-media monitoring service costs (service portion). Analyst salaries are included in staff_wages.
Logistics And Transport $80K/yr
[#10] Zoo/sanctuary liaison travel, outreach, and secure communications costs for coverage of major facilities.
Siem And Audit $60K/yr
[#6] SIEM licenses, forensic storage, continuous logging and periodic third-party audits.
Fire Hazmat Response $60K/yr
[#15] Contracted rapid-response firefighting / HAZMAT priority-response training and coordination.
Research And Monitoring $54K/yr
[#11, #17, #18, #19] Training, red-team/penetration tests, recordkeeping/cataloging, and periodic format-migration expenses (annualized).
Identity Management $12K/yr
[#4] Identity provisioning, badge/biometric systems maintenance, and background check costs for small cleared team.
Ethics Oversight $10K/yr
[#12] Ethics & oversight committee administrative costs and periodic convenings.
Hsm Support $6K/yr
[#2] Maintenance/support contracts for enterprise HSMs and split-key escrow infrastructure.
Prohibition Enforcement $5K/yr
[#13] Compliance checks, signage, and routine inspections to enforce prohibition of orangutans on-site.
Supplies And Consumables $4K/yr
[#1] Replacement media and storage contracts for WORM/archival media.
Facilities Maintenance $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.6M/yr
83.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine monitoring, maintenance, audits, and staffing costs only.
no_leaks_detected routine_audits_only
🚨 Minor Incident $1.7M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$75K vs baseline
Limited online leak or small unauthorized playback detected leading to takedowns, targeted legal action, and modest PR/forensic work.
limited_online_leak single_zoo_audio_clip
🚨 Major Breach $2.1M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$500K vs baseline
Leak resulting in orangutan exposure at a facility requiring emergency veterinary care, firefighting response, large-scale takedowns, and significant PR/legal response.
zoo_exposure multi-site_leak large_public_incident
👥 Personnel 6 total
Role Count Notes
Custodian / Crypto Admin 2 [#5] Specialized staff to manage encrypted asset, keys, and audit logs.
Supervisor / Crypto Supervisor 1 [#5] Oversees custodians and approves two-person rule operations.
Cybersecurity Analyst / IR 1 [#7] Monitoring, threat intelligence, and incident response coordination.
Zoo Liaison / Outreach 1 [#10] Covert/overt liaison to ape-holding facilities and outreach for rapid detection.
Veterinary Specialist (consultant/retainer) 1 [#14] Veterinary burn/burn-care specialist available for incident response and advisory.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide explicit ranges for most cost categories enabling estimates, but wide ranges for incident responses, veterinary care, and legal/PR actions create uncertainty in annualized and per-incident costs.
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