Re: Anti-DDoS Appliance with a focus on Web Code Exploits (Comment Spam, and the like)

[ggwin () cafesoft com]

Eric,

You might take a look at products like linkdeny or servermask form www.port80software.com, which are designed for IIS.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Marden <security () xentek net>
Sent: Wed, September 5, 2007 3:15 pm
To: webappsec () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Anti-DDoS Appliance with a focus on Web Code Exploits (Comment Spam, and the like)

Thanks for the recommendations and keep them coming. But keep in  
mind. Their infrastructure is Win 2003 + CF + IIS.

So modsecuirty and to a point iptables may not be ideal solutions.  
However, this could change as long as the disruption to their core  
business is minimal.


-= Eric Marden =-
http://www.linkedin.com/in/xentek

On Sep 5, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Josh Amishav-Zlatin wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Eric Marden wrote:
>
> > I've just started with a company running Coldfusion Apps on Windows.
> > Too much code for me to audit quickly, but need some recommendations
> > on something we can put at the network perimeter that will sniff
> > incoming traffic only for weird patterns.... like if a guest book
> > gets hit 100 times in 10 secs from the same IP it will just start to
> > block....
> >
> > It shouldn't worry about outgoing, just incoming.
> >
> > Didn't think Snort was for this, or other IDS type systems.
> > Commercial or Open Source (OS Preferred) will be considered. An
> > Appliance if its Commercial. We need something quick and easy.
>
> For the problem you specified above, you could take care of with an
> iptables rule using the limit flag. If your looking for a quick fix to
> provide some general web application protection, take a look at  
> setting
> up mod-security.
>
> --
>  - Josh


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