Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 08 | Page 16

TRENDING CAN YOU AFFORD $500 PER MINUTE OF INTERNET DOWNTIME? Many organisations have no clue how much one minute of Internet downtime costs them, or haven’t stopped to think about it, says Tom Beinkowski, Director of Product Marketing at Arbor Networks. As a result, they greatly underestimate the impact of one of the most common causes of downtime – DDoS attacks. Almost every organisation now depends on the Internet for doing business, and the consequences can be most unpleasant when it’s cut off. 16 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com