Attackers induce abnormal jitter and latency on the WAN path that carries VoIP for the city’s 911 call-taking centers. Which statement best reflects how bandwidth, latency, jitter, and throughput should inform secure and resilient design?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
911 voice hates jitter the way a live concert hates skipping tracks. Weird latency spikes aren’t just 'the network being slow'—they can be an attack or a fault that takes emergency calls down. Watch the metrics and design for voice first.
Full Explanation
For latency-sensitive municipal voice such as 911 call-taking, performance metrics are security-relevant availability signals. Induced jitter or latency can deny or degrade emergency communications even without classic packet floods. Design should include monitoring thresholds, QoS and path diversity for voice, and incident processes that treat anomalous performance as a potential attack or serious fault—not merely an operations footnote.