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Commercial anti-DOS services

Commercial anti-DOS services

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Commercial anti-DOS services

- [Instructor] There are a number of managed service vendors that offer Anti-DoS capabilities. CloudFlare is one of these, offering a set of security solutions which are cloud-based. It's strategy for preventing attack includes filtering black listed sites, customer side white lists, detecting attack signatures, web application fire wall, and port filtering. Of particular interest it offers network-level DDoS protection by recognizing the common SIN, UDP, and ICMP flooding attacks. It also offers application level attack mitigation by managing traffic searches. CloudFlare leverages it's knowledge of attack characteristics on one customer, to then protect it's customer community as a whole. Akamai is a well known content delivery service for the cloud, and it offers one of the most popular DDos protection services. Akamai's prolexic network provides more than 2.8 terabits per second of attack mitigation bandwidth. It consists of 6 data scrubbing centers around the world, with network…

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