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The Problem Isn't Attribution; It's Multi-Stage Attacks

Abstract: 
"As a result of increasing spam, DDoS attacks, cybercrime, and data exfiltration from corporate and government sites, there have been multiple calls for an Internet architecture that enables better network attribution at the packet layer. The intent is for a mechanism that links a packet to some packet level personally identifiable information (PLPII). But cyberattacks and cyberexploitations are more different than they are the same. One result of these distinctions is that packet-level attribution is neither as useful nor as necessary as it would appear."
Author: 
David Clark and Susan Landau
Institution: 
CSAIL, MIT; Radcliff Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Year: 
2012
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Industry Focus: 
Internet & Cyberspace
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Bibliographies & Reports