Arbor Networks\u2019 7th annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report presents a view of 2011 security through the eyes of the providers: ISPs, hosting companies, and service providers. \u201cIdeology was the most common factor for DDoS in 2011,\u201d it notes, \u201cfollowed by a desire to vandalize.\u201d Since we have seen hacktivists willing to issue a general \u2018call to arms\u2019 and even provide the tools to take part in attacks, it represents, concludes Arbor, \u2018a sea-change in the risk-assessment model\u2019 for both network operators and their customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
They are still rare, indicating that the slow uptake of IPv6 makes it \u201cnot yet economically or operationally significant enough to warrant serious attention by the Internet criminal underground.\u201d <\/p>\n
However, there has been a significant increase in large flood-based attacks in excess of 10 Gbps, constituting \u201can extremely serious threat to network infrastructure and ancillary support services such as DNS, not to mention end-customer properties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two things that might surprise network customers are the providers\u2019 concern over the effectiveness of stateful firewalls, IPS and load-balancing devices in the face of DDoS attacks, and what Arbor describes as the \u201cperennial disengagement of most network operators from law enforcement.\u201d <\/p>\n
On law enforcement, network operators lack confidence in LEA\u2019s ability and willingness to investigate online attacks, and \u201cevince strong dissatisfaction with current governmental efforts to protect critical infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}