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Survival Time on the Internet |
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Written by Jared Maynard
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Tuesday, 15 July 2008 |
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"I have been asked many by people if I really believed the survival time graph on the ISC site was truly an accurate representation of how long a new system had once connected. The answer to this is yes for most home users and systems that are internet facing. It can be longer depending on the system, what sits in front of it and what it is used for. The survival time is currently around 4 minutes for unpatched systems. That is not much time at all and the window has shrunk over the past couple of years. If you want to do your own experiment by placing a sacrificial system out there, its really a fun thing to do! Don't patch the system and see how long it takes before it receives its first probes and actually becomes compromised. Just make sure you monitor and its not used against others. If you really want to do this, I'd advise checking out the Honeynet Project." ~sans.org
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