Just two weeks after a major global IT failure rendered millions of computer systems inaccessible, another ten-hour outage, this time as the result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, recently affected users of the same global organisation across multiple regions. This latest DDoS-attack driven outage once again highlights the severe consequences that the breakdown of a mission-critical application can have on a business, as thousands of outage reports and complaints were logged within a short space of time. But is it possible to actually calculate the cost impact of this type of failure? Read the full NETSCOUT article on TechArena.
