Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:

I respectfully disagree. Network engineers have to keep up with many tasks and preventing DoS/DDoS should be the responsibility of everyone. I see more folks worried about spam than they are actual security.

Because non of us wantsto spend the next two days working on fixing mail for our organizations. That said, when speaking of DDoS, I believe they are mostly the same bots. And yes, while there is a lot we can do to mitigate DDoS, we are that helpless. All our strategies show as much. Gadi.