Availability disruption: According to Flashpoint, a DoS state wouldn’t expose enterprises to a wider security threat. “Modern enterprise firewalls are designed to ‘fail closed’ rather than ‘fail open’. Entering maintenance mode due to a DoS condition is therefore more accurately characterized as a potential availability disruption than a direct security exposure,” said the spokesperson. “The core risk here appears to be resilience rather than compromise.”This article originally appeared on NetworkWorld.
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