SANS Calculating TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) with Adaptive IPS Whitepaper


Trying to determine the return on investment (ROI) is nearly impossible to do with network security. ROI is typically connected to activities and methods designed to earn financial profit for an organization, while network security strives to reduce losses by ratios set by executive level management. Loss reduction itself, then, becomes a form of reduced cost of ownership for network security professionals and their management. So, instead, this SANS Analyst whitepaper will show how network security can achieve reductions in total cost of ownership (TCO).

By incorporating real-time network and user intelligence, an IPS can adapt to dynamically changing networks and threats. This helps to automate many of the cumbersome tasks that consume human effort, including IPS tuning, impact assessment and remediation helping to improve security, reduce risk, and lower total cost of ownership. Read how to derive more value from an IPS using measurements developed by the SANS Analysts team.


You will learn how the following can all lower TCO:

  • Installation
  • Tuning
  • Impact assessment
  • Linking individual users with events
  • Maximizing detection of real events
  • Minimizing false alarms
  • Investigating the root cause of incidents

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