AT&T's CSO, Ed Amoroso, has called on competitors and the U.S. government to help it cope with increasing denial of service (DDOS) attacks over its network, according to the company's executive director of technology security, Michael Singer.
Singer explained in a briefing last week at the company's Global Network Operations Centre that AT&T has experienced a huge increase in DDOS attacks, which require an increase in capacity on the network to filter bad traffic.
"Ed Amoroso has reached out to partners within the industry and also governments to see if we can work together to defend against these attacks. If the attacks become bigger than AT&T, can we rely on competitors to work together to block it? Maybe together we would have enough capacity to handle some sort of supersized attack," said Singer.
"I think the concern is that it's not amateurs, or cyber-crime rings, it's now huge organizations carrying it out?cyber armies." He added: "We think it's key for the industry to be successful that we cooperate with other suppliers and competitors to stand up against these attackers."
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