Leveraging the Load Balancer to Fight DDoS

Can Load Balancing hardware traditionally used to help scale servers also help against DDoS attacks? Many DDoS mitigation techniques traditionally focus on either getting help from the upstream ISP or reconfiguring the end servers that are getting attacked. Many people forget that the load...

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Brough Davis

July 29, 2010

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