DoS Impact on

Financial Services Institutions

Average cost of
DoS ATTACKS $1.5 MILLION
PER YEAR

Top Consequences of DoS Attacks

01 REPUTATION
DAMAGE
02 DIMINISHED IT
PRODUCTIVITY
03 REVENUE
LOSSES

Average Per Attack Cost of DoS

$1,000 OMMITTED

Revenue Losses $114.9

Technical Support Costs $81.3
Disruption to Normal Operations $76.1
Loss of Productivity $40.5
Change to IT Assets $37.0
$0.0 $40.0 $80.0 $120.0 $160.0

Average data center

DOWNTIME 9 HOURS

AVERAGE # of DOS ATTACKS

Barriers to
4 EXPERIENCED IN 2014

Scariest
DoS Protection Security Threats

Budget
01 01 Zero Day
Attacks

02 02
Lack of Qualied
Security Personnel Malware

Lack of
C-Level Support 03 03 DoS

Companies in this study reported an average of $1.5

million in costs related to DoS over the past 12 months

Use Akamais online calculator at:

www.akamai.com/html/ms/cost-of-web-attack-calculator.html
Cost per Record X Number of Records = Potential Cost of Breach

CREDIT: The Cost of Denial of Service Attacks, Ponemon Institute, March 2015.

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