Re: mitigating ddos attacks

["Dan Duplito" <danduplito () techie com>]

i figured too we'd be better off with managed services in the long run. still have a lot of reading to do though.

thanks to those who replied on and off-list :)

dan

----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Willock <kevin () cipher1 com>
To: Dan Duplito <danduplito () techie com>
Subject: Re: mitigating ddos attacks
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 10:38:40 -0700

> We have been doing some research into this as well, and have looked at 
> RadWare, Top Layer and the Cisco (Riverguard) products. None of them 
> impressed me to the level that we need protection, and currently we are 
> looking at managed mintigation services, such as LANPortals 
> (www.lanportals.com) and Prolexic / Digi-Defense (www.prolexic.com), 
> both of which will offer SLA's for your required bandwidth situation. 
> The costs of the devices are high, so it should be easy to justify a 
> monthly charge for a guaranteed solution, which is going to be updated 
> to handle new attacks that are developed, as opposed to marrying 
> yourself to an expensive piece of hardware, that will potentially be 
> obsolete in a year, or less.
>
> -K
>
> Dan Duplito wrote:
>
> > hi, guys. my apologies for the cross-post and if this topic was already posted before in this list...
> >
> > i've been googling around for anti-ddos solutions/appliances and would just like to get inputs from gurus here who 
> > already have an idea or have implemented real-world anti-ddos systems in their own network.
> >
> > i understand an anti-ddos appliance is not enough, but just the same, are these appliances worth it on their own (as 
> > opposed to load-balancing or scaling-out solutions)? what other technologies do i need to implement/know to mitigate 
> > such attacks?
> >
> > related links/online resources will also be much appreciated.
> >
> > regards,
> > dan
> >