With "almost daily (cyber) attacks" being mounted on private computer
networks and Indian government Web sites, Tata Communications has now
come up with a solution through its DDoS (Distributed Denial of
Service) detection and mitigation service.
The company's DDoS detection and mitigation service promises
real-time application-layer analysis of all IP traffic traversing its
global IP backbone. By monitoring and analyzing customer traffic in
real time, and on a 24x7 basis, Tata Communications seeks to provide
proactive notification of actionable events to its customers. The
company claims its analysts can quickly determine the root cause of
changes in traffic -- be it a violation of usage policy, a worm
outbreak, or a DDoS attack by millions of computers from across the
globe.
ata Communications claims such attack traffic
is filtered in its IP backbone before customer resources can be
impacted, leading to optimum utilization of bandwidth.
As reported by a leading daily, India is estimated to have close to
50,000 malicious Bots with millions more such around the globe. The
point the officials are making here is that there are networks in India
and internationally that are controlled from outside -- "a sort of
cyberspace fifth column". The lurking danger is that at any appointed
time, external controllers of BOTNETS could command the infected
networks of "zombie" computers to potentially create a national
security emergency by flooding traffic at key network and application
infrastructure.
moneyptc posted on May 24, 2008
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