Network Security Principles and Practices

Challenges of Implementing Security at the Service Provider Level

Despite the reasons for having security at the service provider level, it is not always easy or meaningful to attempt to do so. There are often difficulties and challenges in implementing security at the service provider level.

Due to the diverse nature of traffic passing through a service provider's network, it is difficult to implement policies to look for certain kinds of traffic to block or identify as an attack. What might be good traffic for one user of the service provider might be a network attack for another set of users. Although some types of attacks are generic enough to be malicious to all kind of networks, it is difficult to classify traffic in all cases for all kinds ...