By: Lawrie Taylor-Duncan

Lawrie Taylor-Duncan — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:31:02 +0000

Ian’s article is most timely – just today, a DDoS attack brought down a whole country – Minamar (Burma). The scale and capabilities of the “bad guys” these days is truly phenominal and in some cases it’s foreign governments as well as organized cybercrime that are behind these attacks. They have really deep pockets and resources. Such attacks (be they DDoS or SpamBots) need a similarly scaled response. By blocking malicious traffic in the cloud (as Webroot Software does), users can enjoy a level of “defence in depth” that was not possible a few years ago. Endpoint protection (while still needed) just doesn’t cut it anymore as the only defence a system needs. And the genie is out of the bottle with regards to many user’s personal information which has been scattered out in cyberspace for easy pickings. International bounderies cloud things even more as the Internet traverses a myriad of legal jurisdictions in 195 different countries. Churchill would not be amused…

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By: Lawrie Taylor-Duncan