Re: Trends in network operator security

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 todd.glassey () att net wrote:
> Arent these more the attack trends of tier-3 providers and not network
> operators.

Maybe.  I don't see too many tier-1 network operators attacking other
tier-1 network operators. The trend I continue to see affecting network
operators is customer security incidents, i.e. compromised end-user
applications.

> Seems to me that The the real issues is when the tier-2 and tier-1
> infrastructure come under attack.  Otherwise these others are all at the
> applications layer - which so few on this list are interested in.

There are lots of interesting problems, but I don't know if 2003 is
the year.  DOS is just too much fun.

    Route hijacks/bogus origins
    Compromised infrastructure
    MLPS alteration
    Authentication attacks
    Physical intrusion