[145764] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outsourcing DDOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed Oct 19 15:15:37 2011
In-Reply-To: <C002F87E9B3FAB4E9E4A7977CB72AA9676B721BCB1@MSGCMSIL1002.ent.wfb.bank.corp>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:13:55 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: samuel.cunningham@wellsfargo.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 9:13 AM, <samuel.cunningham@wellsfargo.com> wrote:
> We are considering using Prolexic to 'defend' our Internet-facing network=
from DDOS attacks. =A0Anyone have any known issues or word of warnings bef=
ore we proceed?
>
you appear to be an ATT customer (and qwest) ATT has a dos-mitigation
solution, it works well enough... why not just use theirs? it's
guaranteed to be cheaper (in the case of an actual attack) as compared
to prolexic (and closer to your actual website/presence... (since they
have a scrubbing center in stl)
-chris
