[55322] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Banc of America Article
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Mon Jan 27 13:37:27 2003
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:36:38 -0500 (EST)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301251920080.13632-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Patently incorrect? No. It is possible.
>
> Even if the confidentiality of your data is protected, you are still
> vulnerability to attacks on availability and integrity of the data.
>
> For example, you may fully encrypt all your data, use VPNs, etc. But you
> can still loose service due to network congestion or routers failing due
> to other unprotected traffic on your network.
That is not as large of a problem as losing part(s)s of the transaction(s).
Obviously, I cannot imagine how stupid should someone be to design their
network in a way where an internet attack can knock off the non-internet
enabled service provided by a bank.
Alex
