North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?
> > Getting everyone to take security more seriously will most likely never > > going to happen.. :( > > If this is the case then we are screwed... I hope its not the case, I hope > that the customer service folks at ISP/NSP's and NOC and Engineering folks > all keep this in their minds and push their upper management to start > doing the right thing. It really doesn't cost that much, and its certainly > cheaper than the cost of outages or lost revenue when your business is > DoS'd, eh? When the insurrance companies get involved and charge a larger premium to corporations not implementing reasonable security policies and procedures then the situation will improve. Time and time again I have seen corporations do nothing about a problem (physical safety, physical security, network security) until it hurts the bottom line. Also, a large profile (e.g. in the mainstream media) network security incident against a large corporation would again bring attention to the problem. I think that if a network security incident had brought Enron to its knees, rather than questionable accounting, people would be taking more notice of the problem. - Michael Hogsett
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