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Presidio vs. anonym.legal: What You Get When You Pay €3/Month vs. 40 Hours of Engineering
"It's open-source, so it's free." This is the calculation that teams make when evaluating Microsoft Presidio for PII detection. The calculation is wrong — and this article explains exactly why.
Presidio is free to download. Deploying it productively in your organization costs 40-80 engineering hours at minimum. For teams without dedicated engineers, the true cost is higher: either pay a contractor (€2,...