Re: Companies Confront Rising Network Threats

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded by: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>


> Forwarded by: C. L. Staten <sysop () emergency com>
>
> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/netinf/article/0,,11962_795451,00.html
>
> By Eva Marer
> July 2, 2001
>
> Every morning, Gregor Bailar, executive vice president of operations and
> technology and CIO of NASDAQ, pores over the previous day's security
> report. "We have hundreds of different types of hacking and other
> security attempts in any given week," he says. 
>
> At the moment, Bailar's not so much worried about a breach of NASDAQ's
> trading system -- a private network of computers secured behind a tank
> embankment wall -- but about the potential damage in dollars and
> investor confidence should one of the exchange's public Web sites go
> down. 

Should? Wonder if he had any comments for when it DID.

http://attrition.org/mirror/attrition/1999/09/15/www.nasdaq-amex.com/

Interesting to note that this page has since been 'retired' and asks the
user to choose www.nasdaq.com or www.amex.com.

Name:    nasdaq-amex.com
Address:  208.249.117.76

Name:    nasdaq.com
Addresses:  63.79.105.71, 208.249.117.71

Name:    amex.com
Address:  208.249.117.79

These machines are all on the same network and could very well be
virtually hosted off a single machine.

> Like many senior technologists, Bailar makes decisions about risk
> management every day. Unlike most CIOs, however, he's got the backing to
> make his decisions stick. Those resources include two dedicated security
> teams, a direct pipeline to national security personnel, armed security
> guards, and a total budget of $450 million. 

All of these resources didn't stand up to a couple defacers..

> Bailar shakes his head at the way companies leave themselves open for
> attack. But in a way it's understandable, says Savage. "A lot of

Ironic..

> Eva Marer is a freelance reporter based in New York who writes for CIN,
> an internet.com site where this story first appeared. She covers
> investments, personal finance, and corporate technology issues for a
> variety of trade and consumer magazines. 



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