Hackers Beware

Summary

Denial of Service attacks can cause a lot of damage and are very hard to protect against. Therefore, it is critical for any company that has mission-critical systems connected to the Internet to clearly understand what it is facing, and what can be done to minimize the chances of a successful attack. It is also important for companies to analyze their systems and come up with an estimate of how much money they would lose if their systems went down. I know one company that did not want to invest $1 million dollars to have a highly-redundant system, but after analysts determined that every minute their systems were down they would lose $250,000, they quickly realized this was an investment they couldn’t afford not to make. This means that ...