Planning security budgets

Setting budget priorities for IT security investments is not an exact science. One needs to assess the threat landscape and allocate investments to minimise overall business exposure.

Distributed denial of service (DDOS) is a part of the threat landscape. DDOS attacks on data centre operations and services have become both highly sophisticated yet easy to perpetrate. As a result, enterprises, hosting providers and cloud service providers are experiencing DDOS attacks on their data centres more frequently and with more severe business consequences than ever before.

This paper provides guidelines and a framework to help IT security managers set security budget priorities by determining the risk and business consequences of DDOS attacks on their operations.

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