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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Mitigating HTTP DDoS attacks?
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:13:25 -0400 "Rodrick Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: > > They're a few companies that specialize in "DDOS protection type > services" one company that comes to mind is Prolexic and their IPN > infrastructure protection service. Prolexic will basically absorbs all > attacks filter out the bad data and then deliver clean traffic back to > your network. Its completly transparent to you're clients. Its not > cheap but i've worked with a few internet based trading companies who > used this service to litigate DDOS attacks on their network > infrastructure. > Prolexic was indicted about 1.5 years ago for aiding gambling sites: http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/15/HNnyillegalonlinegambling_1.html http://www.firstamendment.com/media/NYQCIndictment.pdf Does anyone know if the indictment has been dropped? (It should be.) A quick poke around their site didn't show any news items saying that. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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