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DDoSSecuritySSL

Rethinking the Scrubbing Center

January 23, 2018 — by Eyal Arazi — 1

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In the past five years, we have watched a rapid evolution in both sophistication and scale of DDoS attacks.  Long gone are the days of the traditional Denial of Service (DoS) attack.  Now, threat actors use massive IoT botnets to enslave millions of devices into global scale DDoS attacks.  They confuse defenses by launching short multi-vector attacks in bursts, they multiply the force impact of their attacks by using TLS/SSL, and even destroy systems with Permanent Denial of Service (PDoS) attacks.

Cloud SecuritySecurity

“POP” Goes the Vendor that Doesn’t Separate Scrubbing Centers from Always-On Platforms

June 1, 2016 — by Ben Desjardins — 0

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It seems hardly a week can pass without some cloud-based security service provider announcing the latest expansion of their cloud infrastructure. The cadence has turned into something of an arms race mentality on the part of these providers, perhaps in response to a sense that’s what the market wants to see in a service provider. After all, X+1 number of Points of Presence (POPs) is better than X, right?

Well, the real answer is that most confounding of answers: it depends. In this case, the dependency is a question of what specific problem you’re trying to solve.