[54733] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scaled Back Cybersecuruty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Jan 14 16:07:29 2003
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:06:57 -0500
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@freedman.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <103014.1607.23062@avi.netaxs.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In article <103014.1607.23062@avi.netaxs.com> you wrote:
: Seems to be a case of prisoners dilema. The security of any one network
: is to some extent at the mercy of all other connected networks. The
: overall security of the network is only as strong as it's weakest link.
: In a highly competitive market place there is going to be little
: incentive to invest in security if it will just be compromised by your
: cost cutting competitors.
Yes, but:
- Shouldn't we encourage our tax $ go with preference towards good
network citizens?
- If only a few of the larger networks started implementing better
practices that engineering groups can't get funded today, we're
still getting better off.
- Starting at the core, which is who the Feds buy the most IP from,
still makes life a lot simpler if and when we get the "big one"
in terms of cyber-attack.
I think this is probably better for a BOF (maybe even the security
BOF) discussion, though...
Avi
