[55558] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Monitoring Center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Jan 31 14:28:02 2003
From: "Jack Bates" <jbates@brightok.net>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:27:27 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
From: "Sean Donelan"
<snip>
> On the other hand, security is a much bigger "win" for a larger provider
> than for a small provider. As Willie Sutton use to say, he robbed banks
> because that's were the money was. Larger providers have more exposure,
> and more to loose. Even a non-directed attack such as a worm tends to
> impact larger providers more than smaller providers. The larger provider
> has more incentive to work on security. For a small provider, security is
> just another expense they would prefer not to spend.
>
<snip>
I completely agree. Yet large providers have peer coordinators and many lack
security coordinators or liaisons. Perhaps it's just the provider I reported
the incident to, and I may find better luck with my new providers. To be
honest, I don't think my old provider would have done much of anything
except that it was a large enough DDOS to force him to backup the access
lists to the core. I love it when the provider's equipment starts shutting
down and their fiber fills up. It reminds me that I'm not always brought to
my knees because of my size.
-Jack
