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Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue Jan 5 02:59:21 2010

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 07:54:33 +0000
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On Jan 5, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Darren Bolding wrote:

> PCI DSS does not require a "Web application firewall".

<http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid92_gc=
i1313797,00.html>

Since no business is going to allow an external 'code review' (if it's even=
 possible, given that they're likely using COTS products, the source code o=
f which they simply don't have), this defaults to a requirement for the 'We=
b application firewall'.

;>

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