Reserve Bank toughens protection against DDoS

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/reverve-bank-toughens-protection-against-ddos/story-e6frgakx-1226264118957

By Andrew Colley
The Australian
February 07, 2012

AUSTRALIA'S central bank has moved to bolster its resistance to a form 
of cyber attack that has become an increasing menace to financial 
institutions in recent months.

The Reserve Bank of Australia late last week invited computer security 
providers to help prevent it falling prey to so-called distributed 
denial of service, or DDoS, attacks.

In a tender briefing statement published on the Commonwealth AusTender 
system last Friday, the Reserve Bank wrote: "The RBA is increasingly 
reliant on its presence on the internet, both for the retrieval of 
information and the provision of services to outside customers across 
the internet.

"Whilst existing firewall and other security controls provide protection 
against penetration threats, they are not able to safeguard the RBA 
against distributed denial of service attacks designed to interrupt the 
bank's connection to the internet."

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