Checkpoint IPS

Sun Feb 8 04:05:29 UTC 2015

On Friday, February 6, 2015, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:

>
> On 6 Feb 2015, at 23:23, Darden, Patrick wrote:
>
>  And when  your opinion is an acknowledged universal constant, I will tip
>> my hat to you.
>>
>
> It's been a constant for the last couple of decades - I can't count the
> number of times I've been involved in mitigating penny-ante DDoS attacks
> which succeeded *solely* due to state exhaustion on stateful firewalls,
> 'IPS' devices, and load-balancers.
>
> I've seen a 20gb/sec commercial stateful firewall taken down by a 3mb/sec
> spoofed SYN-flood.
>
> I've seen a 10gb/sec commercial load-balancer taken down by 60 second at
> 6kpps - yes, 6kpps - of HOIC.
>
> And so on, and so forth.
>
> 'Dismiss' it all you like, but it's a real issue, as others on this list
> know from bitter experience.

Hi,

Roland is right.  99% of network based security products are pure snake
oil. Patch you servers, know your base line, statelessly filter unwanted
traffic, rtbh as needed, sleep well at night.

Bye.

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> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net>
>