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Re: Network & Systems Cloaking Tool
From: twig les <twigles () yahoo com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 09:53:54 -0800 (PST)
Now I'm curious. I looked at the site, but it seems a bit geared toward management. Exactly how does this box decide what traffic is legit and what isn't? This has been the crux of the computer security world's problem since the get-go. I understand the whole do-it-in-asic part for wire speed, but the black box thing is a tough for me to trust. Is there a more detailed doc about this? Sorry to hammer you, but this is an open-source list you're posting to. --- Tommy <tommy () secure sh> wrote:
At 06:51 PM 11/6/2002, <hackerwacker () cybermesa com> wrote:No box can protect against a DoS, if it sits at thecustomer end of a pipe, and the DoS is filling the pipe. Hello hackerwacker, as you know, there are two different types of DDoS attacks: 1) flood the pipe 2) attack on application level The bandwidth flooding DDoS attacks are fairly easy to catch with QoS stuff (or iSecure), and should be caught upstream if targeted against a small-bandwidth connection. Even though iSecure also defends against this type of attack, the key feature is defense against application-level DDoS attacks, and not shutting the pipe down (same effect as DDoS), but determination which is "good" traffic (passes), and which is "DDoS" traffic (stopped). This application-level attack is the more devastating, and the most difficult to combat - and this is what iSecure does: http://www.dos-protection.com/html/dos___ddos.html There is a lot of money being spent on the development of other DDoS Defense systems (~$300m so far), and there are some in the market, all of which according to a review by DDoS World in NW Fusion have significant drawbacks, are hard to configure, and/or simply do not work (such as: Sync4 crashes the DDoS Defense system). iSecure does not require any configuration (black box concept) and works against all flooding and application-type DDoS attacks as an inline scanner, successfully eliminating DDoS attacks in real-time, while letting "good" (desireable) traffic pass - and without bandwidth reduction. Its other feature is the network & systems cloaking, which is truly unique (I know of no other system which does that), and which in conjunction with an IDS system can allow for more effective detection & traces, as it forces the attacker to log all ports in the scan range (or all 65,535) twice - while logging all as being 'open' and then to generate the list of "interesting ports" - i.e. the same, slowing down the probe dramatically. This is why I wanted to run it by the Snort community. Even NMAP can't figure out whats behind the system. More at: http://www.dos-protection.com/html/cloaking.html Thanks for your time, Thomas Thomas J. Ackermann Mobile: 214-403-5368 Melior, Inc. --- Perfectionists At Work. (TM) Internet Infrastructure & Security Architects in Dallas,Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Houston, New York, India www.meliorinc.com Tel: (888) 4 MELIOR Fax: (888) TO FAX US This email is intended for the addressee only. The material may be privileged and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify Melior, Inc. immediately by email and delete the original. Thank you!
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