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Introduction:
Our attempt in this page is to show and prove to our audience how can we use Virtualization and Automation to build security buffers which keep hackers away from any internals system. At the same time, it will boost system performance and recovery. We will present the cost of building a sample scalable model which can be used by any company.

We recommend that our audience visit one of our pages presenting the power of Virtualization and automation:

       Using Virtualization in Cybersecurity

The Cost of Cybersecurity and Web Hosting:
Searching the internet for Global Cybersecurity Spending plus how much US and China had spent on Cybersecurity in 2023:

According to Cybercrime Magazine (Sep. 10, 2021):

       Global Cybersecurity Spending to Exceed $1.75 Trillion From 2021-2025
       1. U.S. = $64.86 billion (2022), $71.79 billion (2023)
       2. China = $11.22 billion (2022), $12.05 billion (2023)


The Global Web Hosting Maket:
The global web hosting services market was valued at $108.54 billion in 2023, and is projected to grow to $527.07 billion by 2032. The US web hosting services market is also expected to grow significantly, reaching an estimated value of $133.46 billion by 2032.

Power of Virtual System
Any hardware, software, firewalls or connections can be emulated, created or mimicked by software. Therefore, Virtualization is a very powerful concept and a tool. Servers, system, connections, networks, clusters of networks or any software can be created-released virtually in any number and on any Bare-Metal servers or even virtual servers.

Number of Virtual Servers:
One physical server can provide 200 or more Virtual Machine (VMs) or virual server. We would be able to create one or more virtual servers which would mimic the physical server. Each of the virtual server is an independent running server. Each virtual server can run any number of applications.

Automation and One-Push-of-Button:
With automation and virtualization, any number of virtual servers can be create and released with One-Push-of-Button. One-Push-of-Button means that we would be creating a program, a batch or an OS script. When it is executed, it would create or release X number of virtual servers. We recommend that a GUI interface would be created to automate the One-Push-of-Button processes. The only limitation on how many virtual servers which would created-released on the run is the capacity of the physical server (Bare-Metal).

Speed:
The speed of creating-releasing virtual servers depends on the number of CPU and their speed plus the OS scripts used.

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Building Cybersecurity System for Testing Our Approach:


Virtualization Concept Diagram
Image #1

Image #1 presents a rough draft of the Virtualization Concept and Virtual Machines (VM). It shows one hardware (bare-metal) server #0 can be used to create 200 Virtual Machine (VM) (based available memory and speed of CPU). The main difference between the hardware server and VM is: the hardware server has registers, Cache memory, chips (includning CPU), core memory plus all the hardware such as data bus and so on. On the other hand, a VM can run as if it is a hardware server with its own Operation System and memory plus resources (shared or dedicated). VMs can be created to run, use or interface with literally any software or hardware. VMs also can be created and removed dynamically on the run. VMs can be used as buffers to separate between systems, servers or even storage. Such flexibility can be used by Cybersecurity to prevent hackers from accessing internal system. VMs creation and removal from their existence can be done on the fly. VMs are extremely useful when it comes to testing and implementations of software.

We recommend that Our Proxies-Intelligent Business Unit Brokers system would have the following building specs:

Four Servers – we picked such server spec from the internet which costs about $5,000:

       RS5230, 2U Rack Server
       2 x Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
       Up to 2TB of Memory
       12 x 3.5''/2.5'' Hot-swap SAS/SATA/SSD Drive Bays
       2 x RJ45 1GbE Ports
       550W Redundant


Best network attached storage - Price - Max capacity

       Asustor Lockerstor - 6 Gen 2 - $830 -120TB

Note:
A good starting point is to allocate 2 GB for Windows 10 or later desktops. If you want to use one of the hardware accelerated graphics features for 3D workloads, VMware recommends two virtual CPUs and 4 GB of RAM.
Therefore, 2TB of ram would be able to create:

       2TB (1 terabyte (TB) equals 1,000 gigabytes (GB)) = 2,000 gigabytes (GB)
       2,000 gigabytes (GB) / 4 gigabytes (GB) = 500 VM
       4 server * 500 VM = 2,000 VM


For about $21,000 we literally have a system which would be able to create:

       4 server * 500 VM
       120 TB of NAS
       Cost of software
       OS and other needed system
       Testing


The total cost of building such system would be minimal compare to what AWS, Azure, Google Could be change per month or one year of services.