Re: Outsourcing DDOS

[Dennis <dennis () justipit com>]

Good points Steven.  I'd suggest a deep dive on the technologies implemented by the vendor today as times and attack 
methods have evolved. Many attacks today are not Volumetric or easily detected or mitigated by traditional methods.

Stefan Fouant <sfouant () shortestpathfirst net> wrote:

> Although a bit dated, I did a pretty exhaustive comparison of offerings 
> from AT&T, Verizon, Prolexic, and a few others a while back.
>
> Don't forget there is also the go-it-yourself approach which is always a 
> fun option, guaranteed to keep you up at night and give you a few 
> additional gray hairs...
>
> Let me know if you're interested in the slides...
>
> Stefan Fouant
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> On 10/20/2011 4:43 PM, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > > Chris Cunningham
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