RE: DDoS protection

["Sable, Amol" <Amol_Sable () bmc com>]

Hi Kartik,

Greetings!

DDS vs IPS (for DoS protection aspect only)

The following capabilities are essential as part of any DoS Defense solution. I'm trying to add my comments for IPS in 
the same area. 

1. Detect and mitigate rate-based and protocol attacks
        --> Hard to comment on ability of IPS boxes here. I feel, DDS are more focused on the problem than IPS

2. Resistant to known evasion techniques
        --> Based on my observation, IPS vendors are continually improving on detecting attacks combining evasion 
techniques

3. Be highly resilient and stable  and provide legitimate access to protected resources while under DDoS attack
        -->IPS boxes undergo rigorous stress testing these days

4. Ability to operate at layer 3
        --> An IPS monitors traffic at Layer 3 and Layer 4 to ensure that their headers, states, and so on are those 
specified in the protocol suite. However, the IPS sensor analyzes at Layer 2 to Layer 7 the payload of the packets for 
more sophisticated embedded attacks that might include malicious data. This deeper analysis lets the IPS identify, 
stop, and block attacks that would normally pass through a traditional firewall devices, even DDS devices

If anti DDoS solutions are really solving the purpose needs to be evaluated. May be some benchmark reports will help. 
Some vendors are providing such reports for both - IPS appliances as well as DDS devices. That would be a good starting 
point.

I'd not buy DDS unless it is an absolute necessity and there are no budget constraints.

The question is really good. Let's see what other's views are. 

Regards,
Amol

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of kartik.netec () gmail com
Sent: 16 June 2014 13:47
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: DDoS protection

Hi,

My question is about the DDoS protection appliances. Is it really worth spending $$$$$ buying a DDoS appliance if we 
already had DDoS subscription from the ISPs?

And apart from Arbor and Fortinet, do we have any other big player in this technology?

PS: we are not evaluating cloud based DDoS protection.

Please advise.

Thanks,
KT

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