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What is Survivability?

Survivability is the ability of a network computing system to provide essential services in the presence of attacks and failures, and recover full services in a timely manner. These publications provide foundational information about survivability:

Paper: Survivability: Protecting Your Critical Systems
Paper: Survivability - A New Technical and Business Perspective on Security (pdf)
Technical Report: Survivable Network Systems: An Emerging Discipline (pdf)
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Last updated May 15, 2005.