Protecting against DDOS attacks

With Distributed Denial of Service attacks very much in the news, I’m very glad to be hosting this guest article by someone who for now wishes to remain anonymous – Martin.

Until a few months ago I had never seen a DDoS attack and I had no idea what can be done about it, if anything at all. Not because I wasn’t interested; I was. But most of the papers on the net that deal with the subject are academically abstract and hardly useful in a concrete “I’m in deep shit, WTF do I do now?” situation. So here’s a very basic list of what you can reasonably do before you get attacked, assuming that you have no reason to expect an attack:

The Holy Grail of Infosecurity

Monty Python and The Holy Grail is, as well as being one of the finest comedy films of all time, also rich in security management concepts, and scenarios from which any ITSec team can learn, apparently. 

A recent article on the British Computer Society website takes a closer look at some of these situations, and how the lessons can help corporate IT teams to address common security issues and smooth security management.

http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.15573