Old networking protocols and increasingly complex software code are the reasons for the expected continuing increase in the number of security attacks.
Bill Hancock, chief security officer of Savvis, stated his observation when speaking at the Security Summit 2004 held in Singapore and Malaysia recently.
Savvis is the world’s largest Web hosting company, which, Hancock said, gets “attacked 200–400 times a day.”
“Protocols like TCPIP were developed in the early 1970s and are not able to defend against today’s security threats. Until we improve the protocols, we will have attacks,” he said.
