[54728] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rajesh Talpade)
Tue Jan 14 15:39:27 2003
From: Rajesh Talpade <rrt@research.telcordia.com>
To: vgill@vijaygill.com (Vijay Gill)
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:38:04 -0500 (EST)
Cc: freedman@freedman.net (Avi Freedman), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <7mhecbr1op.fsf@challah.msrl.com> from "Vijay Gill" at Jan 14, 2003 07:06:30 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > Perhaps the Feds (and maybe states) could use their purchasing power
> > to effect change. Short of that, or regulation, the I don't see how
> > the serious issues we have with the 'net will get resolved.
> > I suppose that the "problem" is likely that people don't understand
> > what a nice actually well-written worm could/would do if it were
> > targeted at the infrastructure.
>
> People do. I've been beating this particular horse for a while now,
> and we are starting to deploy the capex hammer. I suggest others start
> to do the same. See my presentation at the eugene nanog.
So what's a good place to look for security requirements in RFPs for
hardware/software vendors ?
Thanks.
Rajesh.
