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Inside Symantec's 'Security Center'

Posted by Hemos on from the look-into-the-future dept.

dipfan writes "There's a fascinating view looking at Symantec's Virginia security centre, where the company defends its corporate clients' networks against those wicked hackers. Scary quote from the Washington Post article: 'The Alexandria facility is a private, miniature version of the kind of public Internet-monitoring capability the Bush administration wants the federal government to develop to protect the nation's electronic infrastructure.'"

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  1. Anyone else notice... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's nagios they have running up on the big screen in the picture of the center. As a side note, NTT/Verio uses Nagios for alot of it's monitoring as well. Their command centers always have at least one nagios view up.

  2. Re:"Security Events" by Unknown+Relic · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why not include all of what you're quoting?

    'Big numbers are par for the course at the Alexandria center, where analysts detect more than 15,000 discrete "security events" against Symantec's clients every day. About 4,000 are deemed real hacker attacks after further analysis, company officials said.'

    Intrusion detection systems often return a fair number of false positive hits. All they're saying here is that their system returns 16,000 positive results, a little over 25% of which are actually cause for concern.

  3. Video for you broadband folks by aengblom · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Post also has a video (real) up with interviews and some views inside the building.

    Web page

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/washte ch/010603-20v.htm

    Direct Link

    http://mfile.akamai.com/920/rm/thepost.download.ak amai.com/920/washtech/010603-20v.ram

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  4. Re:Inside Linux's security center by sheriff_p · · Score: 5, Informative

    Despite killing any credibility you had by using the word 'virii', you might be interested in:

    Linux/Slapper
    Linux/Etap

    or any of the host of others (those are the most interesting in my eyes). But seriously, what is it with people saying that Linux is somehow invincible when it comes to viruses? An unpatched Windows box is no less secure that almost any unpatched BSD or Linux distro from six months ago (see: OpenSSH vulnerabilities).

    There's a great article about weenies who seem to think that their click-and-drool Mandrake install is somehow impenetrable here:

    http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/archives/200209/l inux_malware.xml

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  5. Rotating cubicle made by Poetic by CoderDevo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Poetic Technologies makes the rotating cubicle that they are using.

    Looks like they are using the full-featured Aura model. Yes, we should all have one.