DevOps

DDoS Attacks: Can there be any protection?

Friday, Dec 31, 2010
After the recent period of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on sites which appear to have been linked to Wikileaks; PayPal, Mastercard, Amazon etc. A question arose to me. Is there any way that a business can prevent themselves from being vunerable to DDoS attacks. Now to define a DDoS attack. Wikipedia defines it as “an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users” (DoS Wiki). To use an analogy, if we think of a server as a plughole in a sink. It is a specific size because it can cope with the amount of water that is being poured into the sink. However, what happens if the amount of water (traffic) becomes to great to be emptied. It will spill over the sink. ...