Has progress been made in fighting DDoS attacks?

10.12.2010

Dobbins believes this week's attacks on the Mastercard, Visa and PayPal sites, combined with last week's attacks on the WikiLeaks site, have heightened awareness among IT officials to the need to proactively prepare for a DDoS eventuality.

"These attacks are not very sophisticated or high-bandwidth," he says. "But they've been able to achieve disproportionate impact due to the unpreparedness of the defenders."

in Network World's Wide Area Network section.