[119052] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Nov 5 14:04:51 2009
In-Reply-To: <4AF31923.1000505@rollernet.us>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:04:00 -0800
From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
> Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
>> DDoS is a threat to the cloud just as DDoS is a threat to any other
>> service when you fail to implement protection. Our company recently
>> put out a DDoS mitigated cloud product specifically for high risk
>> clients.
>>
>
> How about the cloud as a DDoS source?
>
It's called a botnet.
- - ferg
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