December 10, 2003
News.Com: Internet worms and critical infrastructure.
Bruce Schneier. And regardless of the answers, there's a very important moral here. As networked computers infiltrate more and more of our critical infrastructure, that infrastructure is vulnerable not only to attacks but also to sloppy software and sloppy operations. And these vulnerabilities are not the obvious ones.
SecurityFocus: A Comparison Study of Three Worm Families and Their Propagation in a Network.
Most of the research that has been pursued has looked at the spread of worms in the context of the global Internet rather than the rate that it will spread through an isolated private sector of the Internet, a corporate network for example. When looking at a global threat, and trying to estimate response time with given protection scenarios, this difference can be critical.
Computerworld: Moving data to the mountain.
In response to the resulting surge in demand for safe and secure digital records storage, Iron Mountain earlier this year opened a 5,000-sq.-ft. data center inside its secret underground facility. The data center includes 24TB of storage capacity and the equivalent of 1,586 T1 communication lines connecting it to the world above.
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