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Re: Outsourcing DDOS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu Oct 20 16:45:22 2011

Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:43:33 +0200
To: <samuel.cunningham@wellsfargo.com>,<nanog@nanog.org>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
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At 09:13 19/10/2011 -0400, samuel.cunningham@wellsfargo.com wrote:
>We are considering using Prolexic to 'defend' our Internet-facing network 
>from DDOS attacks.  Anyone have any known issues or word of warnings 
>before we proceed?

Things to check:

- DDOS service caps
- outage remedy credits
- service trial period
- monitoring - you will want some external mutually agreeable monitoring 
service like gomez/compuware.  Who pays for it?

Regards,
Hank



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