Full Disclosure: Re: Should nmap cause a DoS on cisco routers?

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Jul 2, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Champ Clark III [Softwink] wrote:

> Accidental 'DoS' conditions seem to pop-up a lot in these environments,  IMHO. 

Availability is the most important, yet least-understood element of the C-I-A triad, IMHO.  And not just on 
public-facing networks, but in private networks which often support mission-critical applications, as you describe.

I've found that talking about DoS strictly in terms of loss of availability, along with the business impact of a given 
system or systems suffering a total loss of availability, is sometimes effective in explaining the risks to 
non-technical decisionmakers and convincing them to allocate resources to improve their security postures.  In other 
words, 'phones not working', 'orders can't be processed', 'supply-chain requests can't be fulfilled', 'sales staff 
can't record sales', and so forth.

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