Security

5 security entries.

• DDoS overflow + scrubber sizing

  A distributed denial-of-service attack is a flood of junk traffic from thousands of sources, all pointed at your front door at once. None of it is a real customer; all of it…

• Edge NGFW — the one security box

  An edge firewall is a dedicated security box that sits in the path between your gateway and your switches. Every packet in and out passes through it, and it drops the bad stuff…

• Gateway add-ons (archetype B — no box)

  Before you can afford a dedicated box, you can switch security features straight on your router: a better firewall, basic intrusion-blocking, a little flood-absorb. No extra box,…

• Security appliances (throughput tax)

  Every security box you rack — firewall, intrusion detection, web application firewall — sits in the path of real traffic and reads it on the way through. Reading takes time, so…

• On-box function licenses (IPS / Scrub)

  Your edge firewall does basic filtering out of the box. Intrusion-blocking and flood-absorb are extra features you switch on for it — each costs an upfront fit-fee plus a monthly…