Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey

Tue Sep 27 19:49:30 UTC 2016

"who from my experience tend to be the least 
experienced and network knowledgeable people running a customer network" 

Also most likely to have built their network from scratch out of pure need (perhaps for themselves) rather than someone cashing in on a trend. No offense meant (though surely someone took it) either way. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX 
http://www.midwest-ix.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Brielle Bruns" <bruns at 2mbit.com> 
To: nanog at nanog.org 
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 9:48:24 AM 
Subject: Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey 

On 9/26/16 10:05 PM, Roland Dobbins wrote: 
> +1 for this capability in CPE. 
> 
> OTOH, it will be of no use whatsoever to the user. Providing the user 
> with access to anomalous traffic feeds won't help, either. 
> 
> Users aren't going to call in some third-party service/support company, 
> either. 

You start cutting off users or putting them into a walled garden until 
they fix their machines, and they will start caring. 

This will only work if all providers including cable, DSL and *shudders* 
WISPs (hate to be blunt, but who from my experience tend to be the least 
experienced and network knowledgeable people running a customer network) 
do it so customer's can't just switch networks and 'make the problem go 
away'. 

I use escalating price increases and delays in service/repair time on 
some of my consulting customers who do things I warned them to be more 
careful about. 

It takes time, but when $cost starts to become prohibitive, they stop 
and think. And the ones that never learn... Well, that's more $$$ in 
my pocket for the effort that I would normally charge otherwise. 

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Brielle Bruns 
The Summit Open Source Development Group 
http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org 