[65146] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cost of Worm Attack Protection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Thu Nov 13 10:23:50 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 07:14:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: sgorman1@gmu.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1cfaf21cfe6d.1cfe6d1cfaf2@gmu.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I haven't seen any network or customer site that has protected itself from
worms... only mitigated them.
joelja
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 sgorman1@gmu.edu wrote:
>
>
> I was hoping to get some estimates from folks on the costs of defending
> networks from various worm attacks. It is a pretty wide open question,
> but if anyone has some rough estimates of what it costs per edge,
> manpower vs. equipment costs, or any combination thereof it would be of
> great assistance. We are doing some simulations of attack and defense
> strategies and looking for some good metrics to plug into a cost benefit
> model. We'd be happy to share the results if anyone is interested as
> well.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> sean
>
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