Mazu Networks To Take On DOS Attacks

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000512S0002

By Steve Burke, Computer Reseller News
May 12, 2000 (7:11 AM)

Mazu Networks, a start-up that was a runner-up in the prestigious
Massachusetts Institute of Technology entrepreneurship competition,
aims to put an end to the hacker attacks that resulted in highly
publicized outages earlier this year for Internet high-flyers Yahoo,
Buy.com, and others.

Mazu, which walked away Wednesday night with a $10,000 runner-up prize
in the MIT competition, said its product could have prevented the
outages.

Mazu is building an "intelligent box" at the edge of the network that
learns about traffic flow so it can dynamically stop what are called
the denial of service (DOS) attacks that took down both Yahoo and
Buy.com on consecutive days in February.

Mazu's flexible packet processing platform intelligently monitors
traffic flow on the network, according to the company. Paul Hsiao, one
of Mazu's co-founders, said the product can "adapt and learn" so it
dynamically "ferrets out" hacker attacks. The Mazu product is based on
the research of MIT doctoral candidate Eddie Kohler.

[...]


*-------------------------------------------------*
"Communications without intelligence is noise;
Intelligence without communications is irrelevant."
Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC
---------------------------------------------------
C4I Secure Solutions             http://www.c4i.org
*-------------------------------------------------*

ISN is sponsored by SecurityFocus.com
---
To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of
"SIGNOFF ISN".