http://www.timesofisrael.com/learning-the-art-and-practice-of-cyber-defense/
By David Shamah
The Times of Israel
July 25, 2013
Every single network protection system, even the most sophisticated, has
chinks in its armor. The proof, said Comsec CEO Moshe Ishai, is that his
company’s new security stress testing system, the Comsimulator, was
successful in breaching the defenses of 100 percent of systems tested for
resistance to DDOS (distributed denial of service) cyber-attacks, in which
hackers inundate a site with traffic in order to overload it and shut it
down.
"The sites in question belong to large financial institutions, government
agencies, and others that spent millions of dollars to ensure that their
sites could withstand attacks," said Ishai. "Our simulated attacks
subjected those sites to the kinds of attacks they could expect from
sophisticated government-sponsored hackers who are using the latest tools
and methods to attack."
What’s true for the relatively crude DDOS attacks is also true for the
more sophisticated social engineering hack attacks, in which employees of
an organization click on suspicious links and install viruses and Trojans
that turn their networks into components of botnets, the underground
networks used to send spam and launch cyber attacks (including DDOS
attacks). The bottom line is that even organizations that have spent a
fortune on protecting their computer systems aren’t protected.
This is what war is like, said Ishai -- painful, expensive, and full of
uncertainty. "The number of cyber-attacks today is absurd, and they are
only increasing," said Ishai at a press conference introducing
Comsimulator, probably the toughest security testing system ever devised.
"There’s always something you haven’t thought of in cyber-defense, and
Comsimulator is designed to help organizations figure out what they may
have missed."
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