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Re: Trends in network operator security

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Kruckenberg)
Thu Jan 9 11:06:47 2003

Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 09:06:25 -0700 (MST)
From: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301090655520.17466-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
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On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 todd.glassey@att.net wrote:
> > Arent these more the attack trends of tier-3 providers and not network
> > operators.
> 
> Maybe.  I don't see too many tier-1 network operators
> attacking other tier-1 network operators. The trend I
> continue to see affecting network operators is customer
> security incidents, i.e. compromised end-user
> applications.

Would be nice to see all tier-X service providers provide
more (working) knobs and response teams to help their
customers and peers track, diagnose and defend and protect
themselves against security attacks.

Pete.
http://pete.kruckenberg.com/blog


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