Mu Dynamics: How Much Will this Hour of Downtime Really Cost Me?
by Adam Stein on 30 January 2008 - 05:20:24 PM
During a 9 month study Mu Security recently released, Network Strategy
Partners principal Peter Fetterolf interviewed a number of leading service
providers and their network product suppliers to learn more about the Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO) benefits of using negative testing metrics during both
product deployment and development.
Fetterolf’s findings quantify both service provider and network supplier
dollars (often $10,000 or more per incident) saved by minimizing downtime and
maximizing service availability. NSP
Partner whitepaper and Internet Telephony’s Webcast also include 4
service provider, cable operator and vendor supplier case studies.
The upshot is that any network
outage in service provider, critical infrastructure, and enterprise networks
results in high costs: NIST studies echo
these observations noting that finding and fixing bugs as early as possible
in both Enterprise
and product vendor development lifecycles is significantly less expensive than
in a production network. Automating
negative testing and deploying intelligent fuzzing helps both service providers
and network equipment manufacturers find robustness weaknesses, vulnerabilities
and response time problems before products and services are deployed in
production.
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