Date: Fri May 20 00:50:45 2005
From: laszlof at tvog.net (Frank Laszlo)
Subject: Security benefits of spliting services between
	two ISP providers

You never really want to utilize 100% of your bandwidth, you should 
always have some "extra" bandwidth "just in case." Sure, there are costs 
involved, but as a business, surely one could make the decision on 
whether or not to push it as an expense, or take the risk of only having 
1 connection. I personally wouldnt split the services between the two 
ISPs, I would simple have another connection for those "just in case" 
situations. If a business relies heavily on internet, you shouldnt be 
worried about a few extra bucks for a redundent connection. Just my 2 cents.

Regards,
    Frank

Rossen S. Naydenov wrote:

>I see what you mean guys.
>
>But still I think there are some other things to consider.
>Having two online ISP connections doubles the possibility of having bad
>happening to you (attacks, floods, etc.), right?
>
>On the other hand when speaking about bandwidth utilization things are
>different. Let's see the two options:
>First option - One ISP online and one offline
>	- Say we have 3Mbps online and that's it - both services will
>share that bandwidth.
>Second option - Two ISP online
>	- Say 2Mbps for business purposes on first ISP and 1Mbps for
>other purposes on the second ISP.
>
>But when speaking for total bandwidth I see that in the second option
>total bandwidth is 2Mbps, while in first total is 3Mbps. What about
>that?
>
>In case of failure of one ISP (second option) we will have 2/3 or even
>1/3 of the bandwidth we need... Having two ISP online with 3Mbps
>available bandwidth is not good, because we will not be able to utilize
>it.
>
>Rossen
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Reece Mills [mailto:reece.mills@...rter.net] 
>Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:38 PM
>To: Dave Hawkins; laszlof@...g.net; Rossen S. Naydenov
>Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Security benefits of spliting services
>between two ISP providers
>
>Dave,
>You and Frank have both made excellent points. Utilization of bandwidth 
>and risk reduction through splitting services across providers.  I guess
>
>I had taken a particularly narrow view in my initial response.
>
>Splitting of services across different ISP's is not a bad idea.  My note
>
>vaguely addressed that.  If a cost to benefit evaluation supports an 
>entity utilizing two separate ISP's.  My question would be, Is this 
>extra expenditure  necessary for the organization?  An SLA with one ISP 
>might be enough to accomplish a logical space split for a fraction of 
>the costs of buying two SLA's from two providers.  Now, if you are in an
>
>area that is prone to natural and man made disasters (fires, flooding, 
>earthquakes and bombings) and since you are a global entity, then by all
>
>means split services as described.  However, if that is the case then 
>full redundancy would be my goal.
>
>My apologies for the terse initial response.  Sleep is a good thing and 
>I will try to get more of it.
>
>Reece
>
>
>
>Dave Hawkins wrote:
>
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>>In the case of DDoS, if your web services are targeted, your email
>>systems would still have plenty of bandwidth (splitting services in
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>that
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>>way). Segmenting services like this would pose no real threat from a
>>security standpoint, and in my opinion, only allows you to more fully
>>utilize both lines that you're already paying for. In the case of
>>actual ISP failures, it is quite easy to use something like the Radware
>>LinkProof or WSD to handle complete fail-over to other network
>>providers. It can be (and is) easily done with a lot of our clients who
>>require high-availability for disasters, but also to prevent someone
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>>from saturating a particular ISP link. Combine this with a
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>>multi-segment IPS and you can minimize your risks greatly.
>>Don't misinterpret this as a plug for our products, but Radware has
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>been
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>>in the high-availability and security space for a while now, and we get
>>these kinds of questions all the time.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>-Dave Hawkins
>>Security Engineer
>>Radware
>>http://www.radware.com
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk
>>[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk] On Behalf Of Frank
>>Laszlo
>>Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:04 AM
>>To: Reece Mills
>>Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
>>Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Security benefits of spliting services
>>between two ISP providers
>>
>>Not exactly. If one ISP fails, the other could be used as a backup
>>system for the services that are on the "failed" isp. This could be
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>done
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>>with a transparent proxy or something of the sort.
>>
>>Regards,
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>Reece Mills wrote:
>>
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>>Only part of what you need will be affected if one of your ISPs
>>fail....  Hope it is not the web based business services provider...
>>Hope it
>>is not the email provider....   
>>Ok... What will be the security benefit of splitting services between
>>two ISP providers as you described?
>>
>>Nothing.
>>
>>Reece
>>
>>
>>Rossen S. Naydenov wrote:
>>
>>|Hi group,
>>|
>>|What will be the security benefit of splitting services between two
>>|ISP providers?
>>|By splitting services I mean have one ISP serve only web based
>>|business services and other ISP serve the email and traffic generated
>>
>>
>>|by internal web browsing (or something similar).
>>|Right now everything goes through one ISP and second ISP connection
>>|is kept as a backup.
>>|
>>|Thanks.
>>|
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