[108514] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Tue Oct 7 15:05:18 2008
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
To: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6cd462c00810071201q51265b2bocec4cb15f4b2552@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:05:00 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Oct 7, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:55 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:13:08 EDT, "Steven M. Bellovin" said:
>>
>>> Right. The US government is a *huge* operation. Suppose you were
>>> the
>>> CIO or the CSO for the US government (excluding the classified
>>> stuff)
>>> -- what is the proper cybersecurity strategy?
Step 0. DON"T PANIC.
>>>
>>
>> Step 1: Figure out what I actually *have* already.
>>
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> Step 2: Baseline your traffic patterns/usage.
>
> - - ferg
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> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
> ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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