Better cybersecurity hinges on understanding actual risks and addressing the right problems - Help Net Security

Better cybersecurity hinges on understanding actual risks and addressing the right problems - Help Net Security

SANS Technology Institute’s Internet Storm Center (ISC) has been a valuable warning service and source of critical cyber threat information to internet users, organizations and security practitioners for nearly two decades.



Dr. Johannes Ullrich, the man whose site (DShield.org) became the basis of a SANS project (Incident.org) that later became the Internet Storm Center, has been leading the effort from the start.


Old and new attack trends


“Initially, the Internet Storm Center mostly dealt with firewall logs. In the early days (2000-2008 or so), firewall logs helped us understand the spread of worms like Leaves, Nimda, Blaster, and others,” he told Help Net Security.


“But as soon as home computers started to either use built-in firewalls, or take advantage of home router/firewall combos that are very common today, we saw h ..

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