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Blocking Cyber Attacks, Increase Bandwidth
10/31/2003
Value Proposition
Organizations can greatly increase their security and bandwidth availability
while reducing the legal risk of piracy by blocking P-to-P file sharing applications.
TippingPoint’s Peer-to-Peer Piracy Prevention feature is included in all
UnityOne Intrusion Prevention Appliances and Systems. The system performs deep
packet inspection through Layer 7, providing immediate protection against known
threats and vulnerabilities.
The cost savings from avoiding an attack could easily reach well into the six-figure range. When calculating return on investment from an intrusion prevention solution; administrators should take into account the time required to patch a system and reboot, the time required for emergency patching (the same day as a vulnerability or exploit is published), remediation time, time to test to make sure the machine is fixed, the opportunity cost of what tasks are neglected due to remediation, decreased productivity, overtime charges or outsourced staff expenditures required to fix the infection, and damages caused from the actual attack.
All of these factors would be multiplied by the number of infected machines, which can range into the hundreds or thousands depending on the size of the organization. Our intrusion prevention system has proved to be a good investment.
Thomas Danford (tdanford@udayton.edu) is associate provost and CIO of University of Dayton.
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