“The success of the recent distributed denial of service (DDoS)
attacks against leading Web sites was largely caused by the poor
design of the systems architecture supporting those sites,
according to Alan Lloyd, manager of strategic development for
Computer Associates International (CA) OpenDirectory group.”
“Systems that are set up to have a single point of entry
have no chance of fending off coordinated attacks like those that
disabled Web sites belonging to Amazon.com, eBay and others,
Lloyd said at a press conference here today.”
“E-commerce security must go hand-in-hand with customer
management, according to Lloyd. Trusted users who have registered
at a site will be granted extra user privileges running on one
server, while the general public, which is likely to include
malicious intruders, are restricted to the shopfront server.”