[AusNOG] NBN must avoid becoming 'failed state'

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Sep 21, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Vitaly Osipov wrote:

> I have not seen the presentation, but judging from the slides it was
> primarily concerned with DDoS prevention.

Actually, it was primarily concerned with dealing with bots, period.

> 
> Although, to be fair, the slides briefly recommend embedding total L2+ surveilance into NBN, but I wonder how this recommendation will fly... (slides 25 and especially 6 :) ).

Not surveillance, visibility for situational awareness.  

> Besides, no instrumentation of local networks will help against foreign attackers.

Actually, it does - it allows one to see inbound/outbound/crossbound attack traffic, botnet command-and-control, et. al.

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