DARPA: Current DDoS protection isn’t cutting it
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The need for such new defenses is obvious: The number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in first quarter of 2015 more than doubled the number of attacks in Q1 of 2014 and attack sites are growing more dangerous, and more capable of launching attacks in excess of 100 Gbps, according to a recent Akamai Technologies State of the Internet Security report.
A clear need therefore exists for fundamentally new DDoS defenses that afford far greater resilience to these attacks, across a broader range of contexts, than existing approaches or evolutionary extensions, DARPA stated.
The DARPA program, called Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3) looks to :
DARPA says that the current art in DDoS defense generally relies on combinations of network?based filtering, traffic diversion and ”scrubbing,” or replication of stored data (or the logical points of connectivity used to access the data) to dilute volumetric attacks and/or to provide diverse access for legitimate users. In general, these existing approaches fall well short of desired capabilities in several respects because:
For XD3 meeting details go here.
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