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Re: Internal Servers (noob post)


From: Don Miesle <donmiesle () mac com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:31:31 -0700

Terry Childs, System Admin who hacked and then controlled the San Francisco IT infrastructure is the most famous and recent. Talk to any Internal investgations team at any major corporation (if they aren't confidential) they will give you dozens

Link on lessons learned from insider threats based on Terry Childs matter:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209100789


On Jun 4, 2009, at 8:28 AM, R. DuFresne wrote:

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On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Gorgon Beast wrote:

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Since many attacks happen from the inside anyway, you should protect those machines. If you want to get really granular (which a lot of companies are, lately), you can put your servers in an internal DMZ as well, behind a firewall and only all authorized workstations to connect to them. This take a lot of work to implement if you are already set up.



Insider threat is often stated, and the metrics I've seen on it do not seem to be backed up. Can you back up yours here, with something solid on the actualy threat from internal users and admins?


Thanks,

Ron DuFresne
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