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Will IE6 be the next NT4?

1st October 2009 All penetration testers will remember the long tail of Windows NT 4.0, and how this operating system continued to be used long past the point when security updates stopped at the end of 2004. For many years the presence of an unpatchable NT4 server was a common issue in a penetration test report, and it is only now, almost five years after security support ended, that finding an NT4 system on a network is becoming a rare event. Read More

One in four web applications susceptible to high risk security flaws

7th September 2009 NTA Monitor has reported a 10% increase in the total number of web applications found to have at least one high-risk security issue... Read More

Organisations facing a changing threat landscape

20th July 2009 According to NTA Monitor's 2009 Annual Security Report, the average number of Internet security vulnerabilities is on the rise... Read More

The Return of the Insider Threat

1st July 2009 When NTA started security testing twelve years ago, the main focus was on the insider threat. There were many reports with statistics showing that most security breaches were due to insiders. By contrast there was very little focus on the external threat via Internet and third-party network links. Back then many companies did not even have a firewall. Read More

Downtime calculator

NTA provides a downtime calculator to enable our customers and clients to assess the potential cost of downtime.

To calculate the cost of downtime, simply enter the values in the appropriate boxes. There is no need to use commas or decimal points.

Duration of downtime in hours:

# of People affected:

Average % lost productivity:
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Average employee wage per hour:

Labour Cost:


Gross annual revenue:

How many days per year are you open for business?

How many hours a day are you open for business?

What % of lost business is irrecoverable?
%
Lost Revenue:

Labour cost per downtime event

Lost revenue per downtime event

Total downtime cost per event

Hourly downtime cost

If this downtime occurred once a month your annual downtime cost would be: