A Good Offense: Companies need comprehensive protection to combat attacks. (DENIAL OF SERVICE).

MAY 23, 2001, Is A DAY THAT WON'T SOON BE FORGOTTEN AT THE Weather Channel's Web site, weather.com. A heavily trafficked Internet site-with monthly totals of 10-14 million unique users and 350 million page-views--weather.com depends on quick and easy access for its visitors. When the site came under attack from an unknown user, part of the problem was establishing that there was actually an attack occurring.

"Somebody was sending us malformed packets, and they were sending those to our routers and routers two levels above us, and they were driving up utilization to 100