Backbone-News

Danny McPherson from Arbor Networks announced today on their “Security to the Core” blog their  (Active Threat Level Analysis System) portal.  Over the last 18 months, Arbor has been working with their customers who have deployed the Arbor Peakflow SP platform to gather global statistics around DDoS traffic and other security threads.

So far 68 providers are participating in the program, and according to Arbor, more then 70% of the Internet is protected by the Peakflow platform. The data is collected on nearly 1300 routers and the peak traffic levels are up to 1.5 Tbps.

Some trends have become visible over the past 18 months:

• IRC servers are still the most comment target
• the most common attacks are TCP SYN flood based, with ICMP floods at a close second

According to Arbor, DDoS traffic has accounted for an average of 1.3% of all traffic, with peaks up to 5%!

Teh Atlas portal includes the following items at the moment:

• Global Threat Map: Real-time visibility into globally propagating threats
• Threat Briefs: Summarizing the most significant security events that have taken place over the past 24 hours
• Top Threat Sources: Multi-dimensional visualization of originating attack activity
• Threat Index: Summarizing Internet malicious activity by offering detailed threat ratings
• Top Internet Attacks: 24-hour snapshot of the most prevalent exploits being used to launch attacks globally
• Vulnerability Risk Index: Determines the most dangerous vulnerabilities being exploited on the Internet today

Juniper announced today the release of JUNOS 9.0. As indicated previously, the new major release integrates the ScreenOS security features, and as allows using those features on the J-Series routers.
Jon Oltsik, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group said: “Running a single-source operating system across a high-performance network infrastructure enables faster innovation by providing network administrators with the confidence to quickly turn on new network features without compromising network performance, stability and security. A common operating system across the enterprise network infrastructure can further reduce administrative, training and management costs, which translates into lower cost of ownership.”
JUNOS 9.0 adds the following features to the J-series services routers:

• Industry-leading high-performance firewall capabilities based on Juniper’s field proven ScreenOS, including zones, policies, and application-layer gateway support to secure both critical information and the network from external threats and denial-of-service attacks;
• Simplified configuration for IPSec VPN supporting secure connectivity over a variety of public networks, allowing flexibility in network design and the ability to optimize for cost or performance; and
• Chassis clustering that enables stateful device and services failover with an active/backup control plane and active/active data plane, all within a single system view, delivering continuity by maintaining high availability and systems-level resiliency for networks.

JUNOS 9.0 software is also available for the T-series and M-series routers, the MX-series Ethernet services router, and the EX-series Ethernet switches.

Read the full press release.