Assignment Direction: In at least five (5) sentences. Assess the statistics by answering the guide questions.
According to Ponemon Institute and IBM studies on cybersecurltv, It costs about $1900 per minute on average when an unplanned data center outage occurs in the United States. which is almost half a million when converted to Philippine currency. As for the annual cost of downtime to US. Businesses it costs about SWOB [=PHP 41T). Which includes revenue losses and maintenance costs, among others.
Furthermore, it takes 119 minutes or almost two (2) hours on average to recover a total data center outage, which translates to $9M .500 (PHP 53M) in damages.
Guide Questions:
1. Which internet privacy protection technique could prevent unplanned data center outages?
2. In terms of network security, how would installing a firewall avoid a data center outage?
3. Based on the provided statistics, justify the need to protect the internet and network from online threats.