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Good point - then what is the cost of attempting to mitigate or handle attacks vs. doing nothing? ----- Original Message ----- From: Joel Jaeggli <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] 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 > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting > [email protected] > GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB > B67F 56B2 > > >
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