I've recently been involved in setting up a "honeynet" at a university who I do consultancy work for on their IT systems, including security. A major problem was the sheer number of times it was attacked by a large number of people at the university, often bouncing off external machines.
I had expected them to catch a few people who had been virtually running wild on the network over the last year. As it turned out, there were too many attacks to be able to narrow it down or to follow up on every event logged.
It made for a frightening reality as to the sheer volume of attacks that go on. A uni is obviously at more risk than most places due to the high volume of computer geeks with too much time to kill. Still, it's a real wakeup call to the scale of what goes on.
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I've recently been involved in setting up a "honeynet" at a university who I do consultancy work for on their IT systems, including security. A major problem was the sheer number of times it was attacked by a large number of people at the university, often bouncing off external machines.
I had expected them to catch a few people who had been virtually running wild on the network over the last year. As it turned out, there were too many attacks to be able to narrow it down or to follow up on every event logged.
It made for a frightening reality as to the sheer volume of attacks that go on. A uni is obviously at more risk than most places due to the high volume of computer geeks with too much time to kill. Still, it's a real wakeup call to the scale of what goes on.