IntruGuard Gets DDoS Detection & Mitigation Patent

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Via theWHIR.com.

[snip]

Distributed denial-of-service mitigation solution provider IntruGuard
application has been granted a patent that covers core elements of an
effective DDoS mitigation solution if a hacker tries to cripple a site with
a DDoS attack.

According to IntuGuard's announcement Monday, the company was awarded a
patent for its "Method and apparatus for rate based denial of service
attack detection and prevention" by the US Patent and Trademarks Office. A
DDoS attack saturates a victim machine with communications requests so it
cannot respond to legitimate traffic. The government of Georgia's website
was taken offline possibly by a Russia-based DDoS attack at the onset of
Russia's invasion of South Ossetia. Popular movie website IMDB was also
taken offline by a DDoS attack this Summer.

IntruGuard states that it has proven it can secure the key elements of any
effective DDoS mitigation solution with its SYN and zombie flood detection
and prevention mechanism, and its technique of limiting connections and
determining adaptive rate thresholds.

[snip]

More:
http://www.thewhir.com/marketwatch/093008_IntuGuard_Gets_DDoS_Patent.cfm
http://www.intruguard.com/IntruGuardDDoSPatent.htm

- - ferg

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017)

wj8DBQFI4uJfq1pz9mNUZTMRArgYAJ92mCbzDTIJim3mgJRC0x4vZBeg9gCg+2lj
vABlxNZKip0zCGwl7DAp6Ys=
=MX2+
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


-- 
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawgster(at)gmail.com
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.