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serviCe aNd aPPliCatioN-layer attaCks toP oPeratioNal threat
Arbor publishes fifth annual worldwide infrastructure security report
Botnet-driven distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks focused and responsibilities, and management understanding and
on services and applications are the number one operational commitment as the most significant obstacles to reducing
security problem facing the service provider community, mitigation times and proactively strengthening operational
according to a report issued by Arbor Networks®. security postures.
The fifth annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report states The Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report includes
that nearly 35% of respondents see more sophisticated service responses from 132 self-classified Tier 1, Tier 2 and other IP
and application attacks as the largest operational threat over the network operators from North America, South America, Europe,
next 12 months, displacing large scale botnet-enabled attacks, Africa and Asia.
which came in second this year at 21%. More than half of the
surveyed providers reported growth in service-level attacks at
one gigabit or less bandwidth levels. Such attacks, while also
driven by botnets, are specifically designed to exploit service
weaknesses, like vulnerable and expensive back-end queries and
computational resource limitations.
“The complexity introduced by the continuing convergence
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based solutions significantly increases the exposed risk profile of
infrastructure and customer-visible services, and astute network
operators seem to be rightly focused on this,” said Danny
McPherson, chief security officer, Arbor Networks.
Several respondents reported prolonged (multi-hour) outages
of prominent internet services during the last year due to
application-level attacks. These service-level attack targets
included distributed domain name system (DNS) infrastructure,
load balancers and large-scale SQL server back-end
infrastructure.
Looking at non-technical issues, respondents cited the
lack of skilled resources, clearly-defined operational policies
CoMPaNies Not MaNagiNg suPPlier risks
Aravo releases findings of Fortune 1000 poll
Despite risks to suppliers’ financial stability being top of the risk list for many organisation, most companies do not actively risk
manage the majority of their suppliers. According to the results of a recent supplier risk poll of Fortune 1000 executives, while
71.4% of those polled expressed that their biggest concern continues to be risk of supplier financial viability, more than half of the
financial, procurement and risk executives polled have less than 20% of their supplier base under active risk management.
Companies that participated in the Aravo-sponsored poll also stated that they were exploring opportunities to maximise
budgets by adding more emerging market suppliers. For instance, the study found that 31.2% of
those polled are “heavily penetrated in emerging markets” while another 31.2% have “already sourced some suppliers in
emerging markets and are looking to expand low-cost country suppliers in 2010.” Not surprisingly, the top concern around
suppliers in emerging markets is regulatory compliance (41.7%), followed by the financial viability of these suppliers (33.3%).
Only 25% of those polled were concerned about product quality.
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