it asset inventory software

Particularly since 2002, there has been an exponential increase not only in the it asset inventory software releases, but also in their relative sophistication and scope of damage. For example, more than 994 new Win32 viruses and worms were documented in the first half of 2003, more than double the 445 documented in the first half of 2002

The majority of flooding attacks target PCs and servers, which, when infected, target other PCs and servers, thus multiplying traffic flows. Network devices themselves are not usually the direct targets of attacks. But the rapidly multiplying volumes of traffic flows eventually drown the CPU and hardware resources of routers and switches in their paths, causing denial of service to legitimate traffic flows. The end result is that it asset inventory software become indirect victims of the attack