DDoS protection

DDoS, short for distributed denial of service, is a form of attack in which multiple compromised networks/hosts are used to target a single system. Organizations need to seriously consider the fact that even if they have sufficient protection against DDoS attacks, their business could be taken out of service or offline if their Internet Service Provider (ISP), hosting provider or Domain Name Service (DNS) provider does not have sufficient DDoS protection. In this section, we are going to discuss the old ISP mechanism and we will also focus on discussing the new automated mechanism.

Remotely triggered black hole routing (RTBH)

Do you recall days when network admins used to call internet service...