A recent announcement by Verizon Business concerning an expanded suite of protection “in the cloud” from denial-of-service-attacks is a great example of services that should be provided within the service providers’ networks – something that we’ve been advocating for years.
Of course, there’s nothing new about denial-of-service-attacks. These attacks, which started primarily as “TCP SYN” attacks, basically are designed to disable a site – or even an entire network – by using up critical network resources with bogus traffic of some form.