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Re: Outsourcing DDOS
From: Stefan Fouant <sfouant () shortestpathfirst net>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:29:47 -0400
On 10/24/2011 1:54 PM, Andreas Echavez wrote:
obviously they will get blocked. My personal experience is that when you're dealing with a DoS at the scale that you need Prolexic, there is simply no one else that can handle that level of traffic.
Andreas,I think there are a lot of people on this list that would argue with that statement. As was mentioned earlier, AT&T, Verizon, and several others including Verisign have very ample networks capable of handling attacks just as large as Prolexic, if not bigger.
One thing to note about Prolexic, where it stands out from some of the others is that it is a completely off-net solution. Many of the other offerings from folks like Verizon require you to have WAN circuits connected to their network in order to avail of such a service (in other words, they will only scrub that which would normally traverse their network on it's way towards your WAN interface).
Others like Verisign have (smartly) adopted a similar model to that of Prolexic. They understand that requiring a physical connection into a provider's cloud is a monolithic approach (and certainly runs counter to today's mantra of offering up cloud-based services).
Stefan Fouant JNCIE-SEC, JNCIE-SP, JNCIE-ER, JNCI Technical Trainer, Juniper Networks Follow us on Twitter @JuniperEducate
Current thread:
- Outsourcing DDOS samuel.cunningham (Oct 19)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Vlad Galu (Oct 19)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Jimmy Hess (Oct 22)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Andreas Echavez (Oct 24)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Stefan Fouant (Oct 24)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Christopher Morrow (Oct 24)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Stefan Fouant (Oct 24)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Andreas Echavez (Oct 24)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Christopher Morrow (Oct 24)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Jimmy Hess (Oct 22)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Vlad Galu (Oct 19)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Brett Watson (Oct 24)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Andreas Echavez (Oct 24)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Andreas Echavez (Oct 24)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Hank Nussbacher (Oct 20)
- Re: Outsourcing DDOS Stefan Fouant (Oct 22)