Determining return on investment

Applies To: Forefront Client Security

Creating a highly available Client Security deployment might require a combination of new or costly hardware solutions, additional staff, and support staff for non-peak hours. As you determine how important it is to maintain availability in your Client Security environment, consider whether the added availability is worth the cost.

Analyze the effects of an outage over time to identify the maximum allowable time that you would want to risk running your enterprise without Client Security. Also analyze the effects of the outage across related resources and dependent systems to identify any cascading effects that may occur as a disrupted system affects other processes that rely on it.

The point at which the cost of a disruption equals the cost of recovery represents the amount of investment that your organization should make in an availability and disaster recovery solution.