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Saul Baron | September 11, 2020

 

How To Calculate the Costs of DDoS Attack - Part 1

 

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have increased by 542% during the COVID-19 pandemic. While attacks are cheap and can be obtained for as little as $10 per hour on the Dark Web, the impact for organizations can be devastating with the average cost of downtime for an enterprise reaching up to $2 million.

How Do You Calculate the Cost of Being DDoS’d?

DDoS attacks have direct and indirect costs. Direct damages, for example, are costs associated with downtime/latency, and loss of immediate revenue, personnel costs associated with mitigating attacks. Indirect Costs would be customer churn, regulatory repercussions, and compromised data.

Direct/Immediate Costs

1.DDoS Attacks Cause Loss of Revenue Due to Site Inaccessibility:

This is the first risk that usually comes to mind when thinking of a “DDoS Attack” and rightfully so. Neustar’s most recent study indicates that nearly half of the enterprises (49%) estimated their hourly revenue risk at US$250,000 or higher. When considering that mitigating DDoS attacks take 45% of enterprises between 3 hours, to more than 24 hours, that amounts to significant financial losses.

2. The True Cost of Session Disruption Caused by DDoS Attacks

A DDoS attacker can create session interruptions, where the customer is right in the middle of a transaction or game, and the system suddenly goes down. What kind of customer experience are you promoting? It is a well-known fact that the buying cycle and shopping cart abandonment are common experiences for eCommerce businesses.

When the dropouts occur because a DDoS attack caused the site to crash, it can mean that the customer may not come back to the site. Finding customers who buy online, keeping in mind the severe competition, and then finding out how DDoS attacks can make one lose them is unimaginable.

For example, 20 DDoS attacks in 30 days can degrade customer web traffic by 35%. Relatively speaking, a 35% degradation in traffic equates to a 60% drop in online purchases and a 40% increase in abandoned shopping carts.

3. Productivity Losses

What if your site serves as the gateway for remote employees? The longer it takes to get the site back up, the less work gets done by all employees in the organization. The average cost of network downtime is around $300,000 per hour. For any business, $300,000/hour is a huge loss. Along with the time required to get the network up and running, it takes an average of 23 minutes to get refocused on one’s prior task. According to a Carnegie Melon University study, cognitive function can decrease by 20 percent after an interruption.

4. IT Staff Time and its Impact on Security

'How a DDoS attack is being mitigated by your 15 employees while doing their regular jobs?', is the question! Another important question is 'Who is watching all the other systems not connected to the DDoS attack?’ In the world of digital transformation, IT manpower are key contributors to business revenue. Their responsibilities stretch beyond setting up hardware and network to ensuring seamless communication channels. As key contributors to the business’s revenue, locking them up in managing an attack can impact the overall smooth functioning of the IT organization and thereby impact revenue numbers.

In the second part of this blog series, we will discuss the indirect and long-term damages from DDoS attacks and a 24/7 DDoS protection solution.

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About MazeBolt -

Israel-based MazeBolt is an innovation leader in cybersecurity, with over two decades of experience in pioneering DDoS protection solutions. The company’s new flagship product, RADAR™, is a patented, new technology. It offers DDoS protection through automated DDoS simulations on live production, with zero downtime. Working in conjunction with any mitigation solution installed. Its unique capabilities have ensured business continuity and full DDoS security posture for enterprises worldwide including Fortune 1000 & NASDAQ-listed companies.

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