Bill Cheswick On Internet Security 37
Franki3 invites our attention to a SecurityFocus interview with Bill Cheswick. He started the Internet Mapping Project in the 90s; you have probably seen the maps that resulted. The interview ranges over firewalling, logging, NIDS and IPS, how to fight DDoS, and the future of BGP and DNS. From the interview: "I have been impressed with the response of the network community. These problems, and others like security weaknesses, security exploits, etc., usually get dealt with in a few days. For example, the SYN packet DOS attacks in 1996 quickly brought together ad hoc teams of experts, and within a week, patches with new mitigations were appearing from the vendors. You can take the Internet down, but probably not for very long."
Cheswick's maps slashddos'ed... (Score:3, Funny)
For as long as the story is on the front page of Slashdot, at least.
Re:you have probably seen the maps that resulted.. (Score:2, Funny)
I did wonder if my home server would ever get slashdotted, and if so, should I attempt to engineer a web solution that can handle it. Too expensive, and I am not sorry I didn't do it.
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