The cost of security should be balanced against the cost of what you are trying to protect AND the damage caused by not protecting it.
Is it justified to spend $2000 in security protecting $500 in equipment? Yes, if the cost of lost labor, customer satisfaction or other indirect costs exceeds the $2000 cost of security
Customer satisfaction can be enhanced if they know that you have good security. It pleases customers to know that their competitors won't be tipped off to their activities by doing business with you.

Notes:

Bullet 2 - 100 engineers sitting around for 8 hours waiting for the computer to be fixed.

100 Engineers x$60 per hour x 8 Hours per day

------------------------------------------------------------- $48,000 wasted i8n one day because of a computer failure

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