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Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue Jan 5 04:07:55 2010

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:02:43 +0000
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On Jan 5, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Darren Bolding wrote:

> I believe their is strong evidence that the use of web application firewa=
lls to meet this DSS requirement is smaller than you might think.  I would =
not be surprised if it was significantly less than 50%- perhaps 20%.

This directly contradicts my experience working for vendor of such products=
, FWIW.=20

But I hope this is indeed the case, as it will lead to higher availability =
for organizations which go this route!

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