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Security architects fear savvy botnet attacks, IPv6 security issues |
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Source: SearchSecurity - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Security architects who monitor and manage many of the underlying systems that ensure smooth data flow across the Internet are growing anxious over the deployments of some of the latest technologies designed to improve Internet security and reliability.
While domain name system security extension (DNSSEC) deployments and IPv6 offer a number of benefits, a lack of support and expertise could prompt an emerging wave of new botnet attacks, according to several security architects responding to a new survey from Arbor Networks Inc., a vendor that sells appliances that defend against botnet attacks.
The survey, in its fifth year, posed questions to 132 security professionals, many of them lead security architects at ISPs and large telecommunications firms. It is designed to highlight the security threats facing service providers.
Nearly 35% of those surveyed said sophisticated service and application-layer attacks represent the largest operational threat over the next 12 months, displacing large scale botnet-enabled attacks, which came in second this year at 21%.
"When Web services were located in single data centers in some aspects they were easier to defend, but now we're dealing with more distributed environments," said Craig Labovitz, chief scientist at Lexington Mass.-based Arbor Networks. "There are many more components today, and as Web services are evolving, so are the attacks."
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