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A consortium of major telecom operators, ISPs and network technology companies has formed to dramatically speed the sharing of information on Internet-based attacks.
Called the Fingerprint Sharing Alliance, the group hopes to identify hackers and put a stop to their activities in real time by deploying an automated platform that profiles suspect traffic patterns and shares that data with local operators.
An Arbor Networks whitepaper details the benefits of the program, which includes streamlined detection, traceback, and mitigation procedures as well as stopping junk traffic much closer to the source and reclaimed bandwidth.
This level of cooperation is a result of malicious activity that has grown more "distributed and diffused", as recent DNS attacks, worm activity and the emergence of botnets have shown. Dramatically boosting the speed in which service providers can react also factors into the alliance's plans.
Arbor Networks's Tom Schuster, president, said in a release, "By sharing the attack details providers are better able to protect their customers as the attack is mitigated closer to the point of origin, thus preventing collateral damage."
The list of participants reads like a global tech and telecom "Who's Who". Companies include British Telecom, Cisco Systems, MCI, NTT Communications, Asia Netcom, Broadwing Communications, EarthLink, Arbor Networks, Internet2, Rackspace and XO Communications among others.
Global reach is imperative to the group's goal of putting a dent of stemming the growth of online attacks. According to a statement, the alliance believes that its formation "marks a significant step forward in the fight against Internet attacks and major infrastructure threats that cross network boundaries, continents and oceans".
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