|
Authors: | Thomas Dübendorfer, Arno Wagner, Bernhard Plattner |
Group: | Communication Systems |
Type: | Inproceedings |
Title: | An Economic Damage Model for Large-Scale Internet Attacks |
Year: | 2004 |
Month: | June |
Pub-Key: | EcDam04 |
Book Titel: | Proceedings of WET ICE 2004 |
Keywords: | Economic, Damage, Internet, Attack, Worm |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Abstract: | Companies that rely on the Internet for their daily business are challenged by uncontrolled massive worm spreading and the lurking threat of large-scale distributed denial of service attacks. We present a new model and methodology, which allows a company to qualitatively and quantitatively estimate possible financial losses due to partial or complete interruption of Internet connectivity. Our systems engineering approach is based on an in-depth analysis of the Internet dependence of different types of enterprises and on interviews with Swiss telcos, backbone and Internet service providers. A discussion of sample scenarios illustrates the flexibility and applicability of our model. |
Remarks: | best paper award (Enterprise Security track) |
Location: | Modena, Italy |
Resources: | [BibTeX] [Paper as PDF] |