I'm using the wonderful gear from TopLayer. I've also spoken to Verisign for more external mitigation, but be advised that this is some costly stuff, depending on how much bandwidth is involved.
*ASB *(My Bio via About.Me <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Greg Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
