RE: Denial of service

[Jim Wamsley 303-673-8163 <wamsljr () coltano stortek com>]

While everyone is concerned about the external clown who is trying to stop us
from doing business, let's not forget about the internal side of the security
game.  Take a little time to look around at your network and you will find
plenty of examples of Denial of Service from your own customers.  And I am
not talking about the engineers who are challenging the marketing guys to 
Doom or NetTrek every day at lunch.  I am tallking about the applications
developers who roll out a centralized application with the client side being
interactive across the WAN, without any thought of all the major downloads
going across the same link.  Or the two guys that found this really neat 
backup package somewhere on the Internet, and decide they are going to back
up each other's stuff, all gazillion gig worth daily and they are on opposite
sides of the backbone.  Or the obnoxious sys admin who decides to back up the 
Internet servers at noon, and for some reason doesn't know about incremental
backups. (Why would anyone bother backing up a news server anyway.)  Or the
guy who just learned to write scripts in TCL and writes one to go after the
same web page on the same server, every 5 seconds. For 12 hours,  and let's not forget the guys in Corporate Education 
with their network, with its textbook
design that some how, no matter what you do to keep it firewalled, always seems to get on the backbone.  Compared to 
these guys, the external guys are easy.  We
know what their goals are.  The internal guys are just stupid and harder to
catch, let alone 'convict'.

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