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Symantec CTO on Flash Attacks
scubacuda writes "Robert Clyde, CTO of Symantec, recently warned an audience at the United Nations that there's an increasing gap between the speed at which attacks are being launched and the industry's ability to respond. Most attacks on Web sites are classified as Class III threats because they tend to take several hours/days to execute. Recently, however, Class II "Warhol attacks"--such as the SQL Slammer worm that make themselves famous in 15 minutes--have emerged. Before long, Clyde predicts that groups of well-funded hackers working in concert will be able to launch Class I "Flash attacks." To combat this, Clyde says that patches would need to be developed more quickly and deployed continuously in an automated mode. Admins would need better ways of locking down networks so an attack on one router is automatically recognized by all routers on the network; throttling back the throughput of suspicious packets on the network in order to limit damage; automating tools for ensuring that all network clients are compliant with security policies; and creating Web services technologies that do not interfere with application performance."
Please, please post this kind of stuff in your journal or in a related thread... there's just one more annoying thing than reading the type of post you just made, and that's the kind of post I'm writing right now :S.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Before any mods take the parent seriously, please realize that this is a troll. He gives himself away in the second paragraph: (emphasis added by me)
However, Java has only been around since 1995, making it physically impossible for this guy to have over ten years of experience. I'm sure that's not even possible if he actually was one of the Java architects -- "over ten years" implies that the latest he could have first used Java was 1992, a good three years before Java was officially announced. While Java could have been around in some form or another internally at Sun, I sincerely doubt it would've been in any kind of useable form that early.
Others may say he gave himself away even earlier, saying that Perl is a retired language. I'm optimistic, and would like to think Perl is dead, so I won't hold that one against him :)
as an employee of Microsoft shouldn't you be pushing VB .Net??