Hey guys and gals, Just wondering what you guys are doing to protect yourself against a DDOS attack? I was helping a buddy over the weekend who's company was getting attacked, and it was an eye opening experience in just how un-prepared most companies are for this. The attackers we're coming from hundreds of machines across Europe, and we're doing a syn-flood\http get overload attack. While the syn-flood was relatively easy to mitigate, the http get flood was not. In the end they had to sign on with a scrubbing service at a hefty price to get it cleaned up. It's defiantly made me look at what I can do pro-actively in setting up the right gear to control as much as I can when it gets to our local network, but I'm thinking by the time it gets to us, its too late, as they could easily overwhelm a gig pipe with the right attack.
Thoughts? Thanks, -Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
