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How much does it cost to protect your website against DDOS, by tier?

  • Cross posted to Security Stack Exchange - http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10728/how-much-does-it-cost-to-protect-your-website-against-ddos-by-tier Today several financial institutes in Israel (banks, stock exchange) were DDOSed (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-01-16/hackers-israel-airline-stocks/52601712/1). They decided to block all foreign IPs as a first aid measure. While I agree that it was possibly the best thing to do as a first aid measure, I was really surprised it was necessary. Don't banks and large institutes like the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange have "serious enough" DDOS protection? How much it would cost to implement protection against DDOS attacks? I know there are ranges of possible DDOS attacks, from silling SYN attacks to more serious application level DDOS. I'm interested in how much would it cost to protect against each of these (just trying to understand why it wasn't implemented well in advance in this case).

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    Realistically, to stop a determined DDOS attack you'd need the kinds of funds companies like google have. To be "safe" you'd have to have a several distinct remote hosts, with huge amounts of bandwidth for the initial DNS.

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It really depends upon how much the people that maintain your (in most cases) upstream router charge you. http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/services/security/ddosmitigation/

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