Re: Cloud service [was: RE: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)]

* Joel Jaeggli · * Mon Jun 23 15:20:42 2008

Frank Bulk - iNAME wrote:

When I hear "cloud services" I think "in the network" even though it appears
all these cloud services perform their work at a data center as an
outsourced service.
Is there a vendor that makes a product that perform spam/malware filtering
literally in the network, i.e. as a service provider, can I provide spam
filtering for the enterprises in my customer base by adding a piece of
network gear?  I'm not aware of one today except those who provide
enterprise-oriented gateways like SonicWall.

dpi boxes from a number of vendors can do that sort of thing... whether
they can do it fast enough to be inline with your compute cloud is
another question entirely.
That said the result is fairly perilous when rejecting a message
involves forging packets. and of course tls supporting mta's will be
opaque to the network traffic inspecting device.
Frank
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From: Roland Dobbins [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 9:20 PM

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re:

Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)
<snip> 
This is far different from free email Google or Hotmail - these cloud
services (EC2, Mosso, Slicehost, Terremark's Enterprise Cloud,
Telstra's new service, AppEngine, et.al.) are where many popular new
Internet applications will live, and, even more significantly, where
an increasing amount large-scale enterprise computing (like banking,
pharma, government, and so forth) will take place.
I foresee interesting times ahead.
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