[c-nsp] Any good Cisco (or other vendor) appliances for application server DDoS prevention?

Artur arturnrm at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 17:05:02 EST 2009


As far as I know Arbor does great stuff again's DDoS but for SP 
environments, and as I did pointed out, are the only one really capable 
to mitigate a DDoS attack.
For enterprise the only way to do it is with good design.

On 12/21/2009 7:15 PM, Tony Varriale wrote:
> You may want to contact Arbor since they have a business model based 
> on what you claim doesn't exist.
>
> tv
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Artur" <arturnrm at gmail.com>
> To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 3:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Any good Cisco (or other vendor) appliances for 
> application server DDoS prevention?
>
>
>> Hello Drew,
>>
>> Unfortunately there isn't a efficient DDoS mitigation appliance. 
>> Simply because, to my knowledge there ins't an appliance able to 
>> handle the huge amount of traffic sent by a DDoS attack.
>> Only your SP could prevent this from reaching you.
>> The only things you could do would be get some redundancy.
>>
>> cheers
>> Artur
>>
>> On 12/21/2009 5:39 PM, Drew Weaver wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm currently searching for a firewall appliance which can also 
>>> handle application server DDoS mitigation on a small scale (not 
>>> network wide).
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of anything like this from Cisco or any other vendor?
>>>
>>> I'm aware of the 'huge' network wide products such as CiscoGuard, 
>>> Arbor, etc but I am looking for something smaller scale, I just need 
>>> to be able to put something in-line between the WAN and a group of 
>>> servers that will look for things like 20 hosts on the net opening 
>>> 1000s requests to the same URL.. etc
>>>
>>> Any advice is appreciated.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> -Drew
>>>
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