'Denial-of-Service' Attacks Require a New Vigilance - Industry Trend or Event

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, Feb 21, 2000

In an Impact released Tuesday, Aberdeen Group outlined actions that IS managers, security solution suppliers, law enforcement officials, and investors can take in response to the recent spate of denial-of-service attacks against popular Web sites such as e.Bay, Yahoo, and CNN.com.

"Enterprises engaged in e-Commerce and business-to-business trading need to take these attacks seriously," said Jim Hurley, Managing Director of Aberdeen's Information Security practice. "These attacks are sophisticated, difficult to decipher, and hard to prevent -- requiring a new vigilance. However, technology does exist for IS to overcome these attacks."

In the Impact, entitled "Web Commerce Under Attack Requires a New Vigilance," Hurley recommends that IS managers quickly educate themselves about this new class of attacks and deploy intrusion detection tools or services. He also encourages information security suppliers to focus on solutions that will help IS managers protect their enterprises and assist law enforcement officials to prevent future attacks.

To read "Web Commerce Under Attack Requires a New Vigilance," which is posted on Aberdeen's Web site, go to www.aberdeen.com/ab_abstracts/2000/02/02002000.htm.> Founded in 1988, Aberdeen Group provides IT consulting and market strategy advice to the IT supplier community. Steeped in technology and armed with end-user field research, Aberdeen focuses on answering clients' critical business and technology questions in the context of the Internet economy and across the product life cycle. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Aberdeen Group has offices in Palo Alto, California, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Aberdeen is located on the Web at www.aberdeen.com.