Back Ground: I come from a company of 5K users spread across a large campus with several remote sites. We have had various worms intrude on our day to day activities. Without anything other than up to date anti-virus and some simple PIX type configurations it has been unpleasant.
Time cost: One attack slowing Internet traffic to a crawl. Manpower: 2-3 Network 2-3 Data fairly dedicated over the course of a few days. Do the math for the cost of 6 senior people finding and cleaning infected machines. Quotes todate to implement a NIDS solution that encompasses external, DMZ, internal, server farms, 6 mid range devices 100K. Quotes on HIDS solutions vary as per desktop and server but basically you are looking at 1-2K per server and 50-80 dollars per desktop licence. Kim > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 2003/11/13 Thu AM 09:35:47 EST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Cost of Worm Attack Protection > > > > 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 > >
