Outsourcing DDOS

Hank Nussbacher hank at efes.iucc.ac.il
Thu Oct 20 20:43:33 UTC 2011


At 09:13 19/10/2011 -0400, samuel.cunningham at 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



>Chris Cunningham
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