CCO/cisco.com issues.

Tue Oct 7 04:43:04 UTC 2003

As the bandwidth ramps up on the access side, this problem is only going 
to become more and more prevalent (as if it's not already enough of a 
problem).  While I don't think filtering is the silver bullet, it can 
certainly help at times.  I think some of the larger watch sites (eg 
SANS, etc.) out there have the right idea - even though reactive in 
nature, almost real-time dissemination of attack vectors and trending of 
  methods goes a long way towards slowing down some of these attacks. 
Unfortunately, these single target attacks, such as attacks on Cisco, 
Ebay, Yahoo, etc. cannot be entirely thwarted if the attacker(s) is/are 
determined enough.  We could go down the client side discussion (you 
know, the one about certain software vendors, etc.) but that topic has 
already been covered in great length.