[54605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Trends in network operator security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Fri Jan 10 01:27:31 2003
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:26:49 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301091131450.17928-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Pete Kruckenberg wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Symantec charges between $1,000-$2,000/month for a small or mid-size
> company.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28625-2003Jan8.html
>
> Every major tier-1 service provider I know has a professional services
> consulting team customers can hire to help with security.
>
>
I think pete's thing was more that all isp's should have 24/7 security
folks on call/staff that can track attacks/incidents and hand that
tracking off to their partners at other isp's as they reach the edge of
their network.
Say, what about a consulting service that does this for all large isps :)
