[68126] in North American Network Operators' Group
How much do worms and virus cost ISPs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Mar 3 14:57:29 2004
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 14:56:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Of course, I'm certain Sandvine is selling something to solve the
problem, but it is still a very nice article with some measurable
numbers.
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040303.gtsandmar2/BNStory/Technology/
"On any given day," its white paper concluded, "between 2 and 12 per cent
of all Internet traffic moving across service provider networks is
malicious. Even on well-run networks with dedicated security departments,
malicious traffic constitutes, on average, 5 per cent of all data
throughput."
Service provider with about 100,000 subscribers will lose almost $60,000
in avoidable fees. A provider with one million subscribers will pay an
additional $350,000.
