[54807] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scaled Back Cybersecurity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Fri Jan 17 08:16:31 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:31:32 +0100
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: "Avi Freedman" <freedman@freedman.net>
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <20030115173151.58112.14781.tmda@freedman.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>>> - 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.
>>
>> Is not the problem with this that few if any attacks originate in the
>> core, and by the time the traffics start getting aggregated there it
>> is
>> already more or less to late?
>>
>> - kurtis -
>
> I'm getting at attacks *on* the core as something we need to be
> concerned about...
>
Ok, then I understand and agree completely!
Best regards,
- kurtis -