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Interoute launches free Internet Barometer to alert businesses to danger on the Internet
June 2009 by Marc Jacob
Interoute launches a free internet security barometer that provides organisations with daily insight into malicious activity on the internet.
How the barometer works:
· It collects data from 22 high performance sensors built into the core of the European Internet
· It logs the source, destination and type of malicious activity
· This information is then placed into a balanced score-card for attack weighting
· Starting with the de facto standard for vulnerability signatures, Interoute enriches the self calibrating ‘blacklist’ with custom DDoS attack detection
· High and medium ranked security alerts are then mapped against the geographic location of the origin and destination of the attacks
Benefits of the barometer:
· Provides valuable insight into security threats to help organisations identify and fend off the perpetrators of malicious threats and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
Two years in development, the system has been built with specialist data feeds to guarantee a high degree of accuracy. More significantly, it is also able to anonymise data, so that it can be made available real-time to the public without risk of infringing data protection rights.
Interoute is also offering businesses access to a free widget, which updates according to the day’s threat level. The Interoute Internet Barometer is currently a beta version. Interoute’s security team will be enhancing the system to provide historical trends and diagnostic tools.
