The Reaction Time to Web Site Defacements

Author

Bartoli, Alberto ; Davanzo, Giorgio ; Medvet, Eric

Author_Institution

Univ. of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Volume

13

Issue

4

fYear

2009

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

58

Abstract

Web site defacement has become a common threat for organizations exposed on the Web. Several statistics indicate the occurrence rate of these incidents but not how long these defacements typically last. The authors present the results of a two-month study of more than 62,000 defacements to determine whether and when a reaction to a defacement occurs. Such reaction times tend to be unacceptably long - often several days - and with a long-tailed distribution.

Keywords

Web sites; security of data; statistical distributions; Web site defacement; long-tailed distribution; reaction time; security threat; statistics; Companies; Computer crime; Computer security; Computer worms; Costs; Data security; Monitoring; Statistics; Time measurement; Web and internet services; Internet applications; Web servers; and serviceability; availability; computer systems organization; computers and society; computing milieu; electronic commerce; management of computing and information systems; performance of systems; reliability; security and protection; unauthorized access;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2009.91

Filename

5167268