Tuesday, January 26, 2016

DDoS Prevention: Build vs Buy

In light of the recent DDoS atatcks against the Irish government, it is prudent that organizations take steps to prevent DDoS attacks.

Such attacks may affect either layer 7 or layer 4 of an organization's technology stack, and therefore solutions should be put in place to cover both attack vectors.

Many organizations leverage cloud-based solutions, such as: Imperva Incapsula, Cisco OpenDNS, or F5 Silverline.  However, an organization can leverage more cost effective solutions as well, like: ModSecurity (with a commercial license from SpiderLabs for layer 7 protections) and iptables (for layer 4 protections).

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