Re: post firewall deployment ROI numbers

["Flagg, Martin D." <FlaggMD () HIRAM EDU>]

One thing for your ROI I remember is that we saw an improvement in
bandwidth.  This happened as we became less of a target for attacks
(that utilize bandwidth whether successful or not).

Martin Flagg
Hiram College

-----Original Message-----
From: Tina Darmohray [mailto:tmd () STANFORD EDU] 
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 4:21 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] post firewall deployment ROI numbers

I'm looking for Return On Investment numbers from universities who have 
deployed firewalls.  E.g., one university has shared that they reduced 
their incidents by > 90% by firewalling their campus.  Another
university 
reduced their incident response staffing from 1.25 FTE to 1 FTE [10K
node network] through firewallng.

Do you have similar numbers you'd be willing to share?  I can summarize
to the group, or if you'd prefer your numbers not be widely posted, let
me know that too.

Thank you for your help!

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Tina Darmohray
Information Security Officer
tmd () stanford edu
(650) 724-7661