North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Cisco says attacks are due to operational practices
In an InteractiveWeek article the head of Cisco's security products group says the attacks are an operational problem not a technical problem. >Routers from Cisco and other vendors have the ability to detect the signature >patterns of a denial-of-service attack, and the routers can filter out that >traffic, Farnsworth said. > >"The router knows which sources are legitimate or not and drops on the floor >anything suspicious," Farnsworth said. "Generally speaking, ingress filtering >and committed rates are effective in terms of preventing [malicious] traffic >from ever showing up, or filtering it to a reasonable rate."
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