s00per firewall

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

From: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33026

EURO BOFFINS have come up with a firewall that they think can see off
a denial of service attacks on a network.

Georg Carle, chair of the computing and Internet department at the
University of Tübingen, in Germany, said that his Diadem Firewall uses
hardware and software on the edge of a provider's network.

It detects a denial of service attack by using data filtering and
intrusion prevention technologies. It then coordinates an automatic
reaction based on preset security policies.

Diadem can cut off computers looking like they are violating policies,
such as a machine that suddenly consumes a dramatically higher amount
of bandwidth and have become zombies.

The technology will be useful to defend online gambling sites which
usually get threats of an attack from online protection racketeers
around the time of a sporting event.

Carle said that peered ISPs could share a common policy using Diadem,
strengthening their effectiveness with a coordinated reaction to DDOS
attacks.

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is this new, or old news?

-JP

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