[65148] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cost of Worm Attack Protection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sgorman1@gmu.edu)
Thu Nov 13 11:02:43 2003
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 10:58:38 -0500
From: sgorman1@gmu.edu
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Good point - then what is the cost of attempting to mitigate or handle attacks vs. doing nothing?
----- Original Message -----
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:14 am
Subject: Re: Cost of Worm Attack Protection
> 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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