SCP-7107 — SCP-7107 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-7107 Unknown ~ medium confidence

SCP-7107

Expected annual

$4.3M

One-time setup

$420K

Annual recurring

$4.2M

Personnel

One-time hardening and isolation work is modest (~$420k) while recurring costs are dominated by contingency reserves, dedicated response staffing, legal/cover-up funds and ongoing monitoring (~$4.08M/year). Main drivers are the large emergency reserve and personnel-related recurring expenditures.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $420K

Initial Research And Lab Setup $195K

[#6, #23] Cybersecurity/forensic audit engagement (item #6) and initial research program budget (item #23 initial).

Facilities $119K

[#9, #21] SFHS-7107 short-term detention room build-out (item #9) and physical security upgrades for server room (item #21).

Dev Isolation $28K

[#1] Dedicated code isolation and sandboxing development, review, and deploy (item #1).

O5 Compartmentalization Dev $18K

[#17] Development and enforcement of O5-specific access/compartmentalization controls (item #17).

Equipment $16K

[#5, #19] Secure isolated server/VM hardware setup (item #5) and backup/disaster recovery setup (item #19 - setup portion).

Rbac Changes $16K

[#2] Role-based access control changes to SCiP.net, testing and policy docs (item #2).

Decoy Widget Dev $13K

[#13] Development and testing of non-anomalous public-facing rating widget (item #13).

Integrity Monitoring $8K

[#3] Automated integrity monitoring and rollback hooks implementation (item #3).

Siem Setup $5K

[#4] SIEM integration setup/initialization costs (item #4 setup portion).

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $4.2M/yr

Contingency Reserve $2.8M/yr

[#24] Large-scale breach contingency/reserve fund for major incident response (item #24).

Staff Wages $781K/yr

[#8, #10, #20, #22, #12] Dedicated response/containment team salaries & equipment/training (item #8), SFHS staffing/psychiatric capacity (item #10), patch/upgrade dev-ops allocation (item #20), emergency transport/drivers & guards (item #22), replacement/redundancy staffing & cross-training (item #12).

Cover Story And Legal $275K/yr

[#16] Legal/cover-up contingency fund for counsel, redaction, PR, NDAs and settlements (item #16).

Patch Management Contract $90K/yr

[#20] Ongoing patch/upgrade management labour and regression testing (item #20 recurring).

Psychological Screening $80K/yr

[#11] Regular psychological screening and privileged-user monitoring costs (item #11).

Research And Monitoring $60K/yr

[#23] Ongoing research budget for analysis of SCP-7107 behavior (item #23 ongoing).

Minimal Operations Posture $40K/yr

[#25] Minimal ongoing operations posture (alternative low-cost containment baseline) (item #25).

Siem License $36K/yr

[#4] Ongoing SIEM licensing and monitoring subscription (~$1k–$5k/month) (item #4 recurring).

Emergency Transport Retainer $26K/yr

[#22] Vehicle availability, driver/guard retainer for secure transfer of affected personnel (item #22 recurring).

Redundancy And Training $25K/yr

[#12] Replacement/redundancy staffing and cross-training annual costs (item #12).

Logging Retention $21K/yr

[#7] Continuous logging and tamper-evident log retention costs (item #7).

Incident Drills $12K/yr

[#15] Regular incident response drills and tabletop exercises (item #15).

Insider Monitoring $8K/yr

[#18] Monitoring of insider chatter/leak-detection tooling and analyst time (item #18).

Hosting $7K/yr

[#5] Recurring hosting for the isolated server/VM used by SCP-7107 (item #5 recurring).

Backup Storage $7K/yr

[#19] Recurring off-site/air-gapped backup storage and tested restores (item #19 recurring).

Documentation And Training $5K/yr

[#14] Documentation, SOPs, mandatory annual refresher training upkeep (item #14).

Facilities Maintenance $1K/yr

[#21] Yearly maintenance for physical security upgrades and environmental monitoring (item #21 maintenance).

Supplies And Consumables $0/yr

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Logistics And Transport $0/yr

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⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $4.2M/yr

91.5% probability / year

Normal year with routine monitoring, maintenance, training, and no significant incidents.

routine_operations scheduled_training no_incident

🚨 Minor Incident $4.3M/yr

8.0% probability / year +$109K vs baseline

Isolated editor-compulsion event or small leak requiring SFHS activation, legal actions, and targeted investigation.

isolated_editor_compulsion localized_SFHS_activation small_data_leak

🚨 Major Breach $7.6M/yr

0.5% probability / year +$3.4M vs baseline

Large-scale incident (TK-Class mass breakout / simultaneous deletions or O5 exposure) requiring broad MTF deployment, major medical response, mass amnestic operations, and large legal/PR expenditures.

O5_access_attempts simultaneous_deletion_events mass_containment_breach

👥 Personnel 12 total

Role	Count	Notes
Security Officer / MTF Agent	6	[#8] Dedicated response/containment team (on-call personnel covered under recurring costs).
Medical Officer / Psychiatrist	2	[#10] SFHS staffing and psychiatric assessment capacity (FTEs/on-call).
Engineer / DevOps	1	[#20] Patch/upgrade management and platform regression testing staff/contract-hours.
Driver / Guard	2	[#22] Emergency transport retainer (drivers/guards for secure transfers).
Administrative Staff / Coordinator	1	[#12] Replacement/redundancy coordination, training scheduling and admin support.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are based on analyst-provided ranges and operational judgment; many entries are midpoints of ranges and the anomalous nature and operational choices (e.g., reserve sizing) introduce uncertainty.

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