Sigh of relief

With the recent news of Blue Security closing down after being dDoS’ed into the 1980′s, I can only sigh welcome relief my employer’s plans to move into dDoS mitigation never took off. Few people are qualified to move into this market but even less people recognise this fact!

People who want to take on “the internet bad guys” either 1) have to really know their stuff or 2) be sufficiently p’ed off with spam / spyware and have enough money to throw at the problem – calling Mr. Gates (and even he’s not managed to sort out the spam issue as promised).

I believe my company definately fell within 3 – the “don’t know enough” camp. I can safely say this because I set up a fair bit of the system!

It was a half baked concept (not mine) to re-coup some of costs of our £30k DoS protection system for our primary business, not the best reason to launch such a service.

Ironically Blue Security were flanked by spammer’s nuking their DNS hosts, this is exactly the weak point I highlighted in our own system but was assured ours could handle such an attack. I think this would have been an optimistic assumption given the size of the attack still bombarding Blue Security as I write this… it’s even reported Proxelic (their dDoS mitigation service) had trouble coping.

It’s a depressing outcome to see the bad guys win!