What could have been done differently?

Thu Jan 30 00:01:25 UTC 2003

> But this worm required external access to an internal server (SQL Servers
> are not front-end ones); even with a bad or no patch management system, this
> simply wouldn't happen on a properly configured network. Whoever got
> slammered, has more problems than just this worm. Even with no firewall or
> screening router,  use of RFC1918 private IP address on the SQL Server would
> have prevented this worm attack

RFC1918 addresses would not have prevented this worm attack.
RFC1918 != security