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AT&T launched its DDoS Defense Service Monday aimed at helping small and midsize businesses mitigate malicious Internet attacks.
This is a much slimmed down version of AT&T’s Internet Protect anti-distributed denial of service (DoS) offering, which AT&T first launched in 2004. Internet Protect is a fully managed, proactive service based on Arbor Networks' PeakFlow SP security platform.
DDoS Defense is a self-managed service that costs less than a large enterprise Internet Protect deployment, AT&T says. The service lets smaller organizations keep up with the latest security offerings to thwart attacks.
AT&T would not offer specific pricing information but says DDoS Defense is available with no set-up fees and for a flat monthly fee. Customers will have to pay an additional mitigation charge when under attack, the carrier says.
There are no set-up fees because customers are using their own edge device to detect an attack. When an attack is detected a customer goes to the carrier’s DDoS Defense Portal to redirect traffic to a shared “scrubbing facility.” Here bad packets are separated from good packets, which are then sent to their original destination.
Currently DDoS Defense is available only in the United States. AT&T says it will make DDoS Defense available in 32 countries throughout Europe this summer. AT&T’s Internet Protect anti-DDoS security service is available in 50 countries today.
Level 3 (which acquired the service when it bought Broadwing Communications), Sprint and Verizon Business all offer anti-DDoS services.
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how to downloadBy Anonymous on March 8, 2008, 1:37 pmwheret to click for download
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Where are the anti-DDoS tools for home users?By Anonymous on May 31, 2007, 9:35 amOk, but where are the anti-DDos things to help people like me on their home PC?, i have attracted the unwanted attention of a textbook hacker on Yahoo and he keeps...
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