Re: Outsourcing DDOS

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>]

At 09:13 19/10/2011 -0400, samuel.cunningham () wellsfargo com wrote:
> We are considering using Prolexic to 'defend' our Internet-facing network 
> from DDOS attacks.  Anyone have any known issues or word of warnings 
> before we proceed?

Things to check:

- DDOS service caps
- outage remedy credits
- service trial period
- monitoring - you will want some external mutually agreeable monitoring 
service like gomez/compuware.  Who pays for it?

Regards,
Hank