SCP-5343
EUCLID
~
medium confidence
SCP-5343
Expected annual
$5.8M
One-time setup
$2.9M
Annual recurring
$5.7M
Personnel
26
Initial capital investment of approximately $2.94M (hardware, containment fit-out, contingency and legal/setup costs) with annual operating costs of roughly $5.69M driven primarily by specialist personnel, monitoring/takedown operations, medical/imaging support, and research/archival maintenance.
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $2.9M
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $5.7M/yr
Cost Scenarios
📊
Baseline
(baseline)
$5.7M/yr
Normal year: containment maintained, routine monitoring and case handling with no major incidents.
no_major_detections
routine_confiscations
scheduled_research_and_maintenance
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Minor Incident
$5.9M/yr
Localized detection requiring multiple seizures, a few outsourced scans/autopsies, short emergency legal/PR work and extra analysis.
localized_detection
few_seizures
targeted_takedown
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Major Breach
$8.2M/yr
Widespread platform resistance or public exposure requiring large-scale takedowns, legal settlements, contingency spending and surge staffing.
platform_resistance
public_exposure
mass_transmission
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Research Scaleup
$7.0M/yr
Decision year to purchase on-site CT capability and scale biomedical research (capital purchase + ramped program costs).
strategic_research_decision
scale_up_funding
in-house_imaging_deployment
Personnel
26 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Forensics / Reverse-engineer | 4 | [#5] Mobile reverse engineers and forensic analysts (tools/licenses charged separately). |
| Webcrawler Analyst / DevOps | 3 | [#6] Analysts and devops staff operating continuous monitoring and parsing pipelines. |
| Embedded Operative / Liaison | 3 | [#7] Covert personnel placed within platform ecosystems to enable takedowns/purging. |
| Incident Response Team (on-call) | 6 | [#9] 24/7 rotation of sysadmins, mobile devs and communication specialists for rapid purge operations. |
| Medical Officer / Radiology / Neurology / Psychiatry / Nursing | 6 | [#11, #14, #16] Radiologists, neurologists, psychiatrists and nursing support for scans, therapy and monitoring. |
| Evidence / Administrative Staff | 2 | [#1, #20] Archivist and administrative staff maintaining chain-of-custody, records, and amnestic authorizations. |
| Engineer / Maintenance (network & secure labs) | 2 | [#30] Engineers maintaining segregated networking, SIEM, secure jump-boxes and lab hardware. |
Confidence Notes
Midpoint estimates were used across broad ranges in the analyst notes; personnel and operational choices (outsourcing vs capital purchase, number of operatives/MTF staffing) drive large variance. Item descriptions are well-specified but many ranges are wide, so confidence is medium.