Streamers and security

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Where does the packet inspection of routers come into the equation? Aren't they up to spec or is there a device that sniffs threats out?

 

I gather anything can be compromised if the lure of ransomware is enough, eg Lion Breweries. 

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1 hour ago, gadio4533 said:

FIrewall, it all comes through central point.

Well that's the premise and where the controls are effective. Examination of my ex local Asus router shows the protection was a client of McAfee that did sniff out some dubious websites, but would that be clever enough to detect a stream of audio packet data that has an underlying code in it? 

 

If that's the case, the streamer  may not need protection and be as dumb as it comes. The more you make protections, the bigger the risk of letting in undesirables, since you can't think of 'everything', seems to be the way of IT, huh, there's something in the future that can cause 'vulnerabilities', another word for for IT parlance which means, oh, yeah, forgot/didn't realise about that one. 

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Here's a link about the Lion Breweries ransomware attack. It took a week or so for the plants to be online again and I suppose the IT manager looking for another job. He could have said 'told you so' and was denied money to upgrade security. Would have been cheaper to upgrade, than face the week of lost production. Production managers aren't the kindest of people on the planet.