If a cyber-terrorist wants to bring down an entire corporate infrastructure by means of a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack, the odds are in their favor of not being caught. What does that mean to a business? Simply put, they get stuck holding the bag, while the real culprits are never located. According to Joe Stewart, a director in the Counter Threat Unit at SecureWorks, a computer security consulting firm, in an interview with The New York Times, he states “[t]he truth is, we may never know the true origin of the attack unless the attacker made some colossal blunder.” The "economics" of such a comment suggest that unless businesses take a more progressive approach at protecting their mission-critical information, responding to a security incident, when it occurs, will be severely limited. This lapse in organizational controls could lead to serious liability that may cripple the company.
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