How much of your time does it actually take to stay protected? How long does it take to perform the routine security tasks that occur on a day-to-day basis? Steven Furnell considers this issue, and presents a conservative estimate of how much of his time he spends doing these little security interactions … and how they then add up over a year. [Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.]