Recommended DDoS mitigation appliance?

Mon Nov 18 16:47:14 UTC 2019

It's a logical evolution as botnets became less of a tool for lulz and more
of a economic asset to certain segments of the world.

No sense launching an orbital strike where a garden hose will do the job
just as well.

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 9:05 AM Tom Hill <tom at ninjabadger.net> wrote:

> On 18/11/2019 13:50, Mike Hammett wrote:
> > I would like the list to know that not all targets attract such large
> > attacks. I know many eyeball ISPs that encounter less than 10 gig
> > attacks, which can be reasonably absorbed\mitigated. Online gamers
> > looking to boot someone else from the game aren't generally committing
> >>100 gigs of resources to an attack.
>
>
> There are two very good reasons to use 'surgical' amounts of traffic in
> attacks:
>
>  1. Concealing the size of your botnet
>
>  2. Reducing the damage to the end user's ISP, and thus reducing the
> likelihood that they escalate the attack to the authorities (because
> who's got the time to do that for an individual subscriber?)
>
> The shift to "just enough to knock the customer off without killing the
> whole network" happened around ~2015 in my capacity, at least.
>
> --
> Tom
>
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