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What's On Your Network?
An anonymous reader writes "According to a Whitedust article you may currently have more on your network than you think you do. The article claims that not much security attention is generally given to one of the most elusive aspects of computer security; that of physical connectivity." From the article: "Broadcast traffic is on the rise, with more suspicious user activity in the logs every day. Then one morning you get a call from your irate boss wanting to know why he no longer has a network connection, yet the employees - or students or whoever - down the hall are able to play games and visit porn sites, at blazing speeds no less."
Um, duh, what company network doesn't have egress filtering (bye bye IM, Quake, SSH) and content filtering (bye bye porn, TheOnion, etc) ?
Answer: the same dumbasses who have 'mysterious' network problemss. If you don't really control your network, well, then... you don't really control your network.
Mod the article: -1, Fucking Obvious
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
People who don't know these things should not be running networks.