Planning for and Validating a DDoS Defense Strategy

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Planning for and Validating a DDoS Defense
Strategy

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Planning for and Validating a DDoS Defense
Strategy

• DDoS attacks can cost businesses
• Sales
• Customer loyalty
• Search engine rankings
• An attack on an unprepared business can result in
  several days of downtime
• Having a solid DDoS response plan as part of your
  companys business continuity plan is essential

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Best Practices for DDoS Mitigation Validation

• With the DDoS mitigation service active
• Verify that all applications are performing
  properly
• Verify all routing and DNS is working
• Generate a few gigabits of controlled traffic to
  validate features of the service, including
• Alerting
• Activation
• Mitigation

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Best Practices for DDoS Mitigation Validation

• Validate your on-premise monitoring systems
• Test small levels of traffic without scrubbing
  and without any DDoS protection
• Identify stress points on your network
• Conduct baseline testing and calibrate systems to
  remediate vulnerabilities
• Schedule validation tests on a regular basis
  (yearly or quarterly)
• If network issues arise during testing, make
  modifications

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Best Practices for DDoS Mitigation Validation

• Based on the test results, develop a mitigation
  playbook as part of an incident response plan
• This plan ensures that everyone in the
  organization knows what to do and expect when a
  DDoS attack hits
• Download the full report from Prolexic for more
  information about best practices to ensure your
  DDoS mitigation service can protect your
  business.

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Estimating the Cost of a DDoS Attack

• Forrester Consulting has found that an online
  company loses an average of US 220,000 per hour
  during an unmitigated DDoS attack

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Be Prepared Test and Validate

• Every company that does business online is
  vulnerable to DDoS attacks
• Talk to your DDoS mitigation provider before an
  attack happens
• Test and validate your DDoS mitigation service
  regularly.
• Download the full report for more information
  about how to test and validate a DDoS defense
  plan.

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Create an Operations Plan for DDoS Attacks

• In addition to testing and validating your DDoS
  mitigation service, develop a strong operational
  plan for activation and communication in the
  event of a DDoS attack

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Download the Free White Paper

• Download the white paper Planning for and
  Validating a DDoS Defense at http//www.prolexic.c
  om/planning
• The white paper includes
• Detailed enterprise case studies that show the
  consequences of inadequate preparation
• What to include in your anti-DDoS playbook
• A best-practice case study of DDoS attack
  readiness
• How to validate your DDoS defense

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About Prolexic

• Prolexic Technologies is the worlds largest and
  most trusted provider of DDoS protection and
  mitigation services
• Prolexic has successfully stopped DDoS attacks
  for more than a decade
• We stop the largest attacks that exceed the
  capabilities of other DDoS mitigation service
  providers