RE: Denial of Service: Commercial Defense products

["Kyle Quest" <Kyle.Quest () networkengines com>]

This is just some background info on this new (D)DoS technology
Radware has, so people have a better idea of what Avi is talking
about...

These parameters are:

1.      Source IP.
2.      Destination IP.
3.      Source port.
4.      Destination port.
5.      Packet ID (IP ID).
6.      Packet size.
7.      TCP TTL.
8.      ToS.
9.      IP checksum.
10.     TCP sequence number.
11.     TCP checksum.
12.     TCP flags.
13.     ICMP checksum.
14.     UDP checksum.
15.     ICMP message type.
16.     DNS query.
17.     DNS query ID.

They create dynamic filters and see what kind of effect they have
and how the blocked traffic source behaves. Based on those results
they adjust those filters. 

The way things work it's not unusual for them to block legitimate
traffic for a very small period of time while they are trying to
figure out if traffic they are processing is bad or good. They idea
is that those black out periods wouldn't affect the legitimate traffic
much. 

Kyle

P.S.
I don't work for Radware :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: avi chesla [mailto:chess4_4 () hotmail com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:29 PM
To: finacksyn () yahoo co uk; devdas () dvb homelinux org;
focus-ids () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Denial of Service: Commercial Defense products


Hi Matt,

It should be noted that I am an employee of Radware. The following answer is 
informative only.

The problem you have encountered has been handled in the latest versions of 
the DefensePro.
A new mechanism (adaptive behavioral DoS protection) which aims to handle 
all types of floods has been implemented. This new mechanism uses a mature 
technology that was taken from V-Secure Technologies (this is involved with 
the acquisition that Radware made). The new mechanism mitigates TCP (Syn and 
also other TCP floods), UDP, ICMP and IGMP floods by using a statistical 
adaptive approach (i.e., no thresholds need to be set). The mitigation 
methods that this mechanism allows are highly granular which means that the 
detected attack is blocked according to multiple characteristic parameters 
taken from the packet headers and payload. These parameters (e.g., 
checksums, packet sizes, TTL, ports, DNS queries etc) are detected on the 
fly and are automatically tailored through an AND and OR logical 
relationships in order to generate the most narrow prevention measure 
against the detected attack (all in order to minimize the blocking of 
legitimate users).
The integrated technology allows this whole process (detection and 
prevention) to take place without user intervention.
If you test mitigation tools, you should especially focus on the granularity 
and accuracy of the prevention rules that these tools provide.
Regarding Toplayer and Riverhead, the aforementioned new protection is 
actually a breakthrough for Radware mitigation capabilities.  I advise you 
to test Radware's new DoS and DDoS solution compared to the other vendors - 
I think that the differences can be easily exposed.

Let me know if need any more assistance.

Avi

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