NIST: Use Cloud to Repel DDoS Attacks

Grazed from BankInfoSecurity. Author: Eric Chabrow.

Employing cloud computing services could help organizations defend against the type of distributed denial of service attacks that have temporarily crippled the online service of major American banks, says NIST’s Matthew Scholl.

By using cloud computing services, Scholl says in an interview with Information Security Media Group, enterprises no longer are completely dependent on their own physical infrastructure because they can add processing capabilities from the cloud to keep up with DDoS attacks…

"You have an entire cloud infrastructure that you can spin up and provision to keep pace with the scale of the attack. And when the attack subsides, then you can drop an infrastructure back down again and just pay for that service that you needed when the attack occurs," says Scholl, deputy chief of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s computer security division. "We’ve seen use of cloud and the elasticity and the dynamic nature of cloud technology to be something that is kind of changing the economics of a DDoS attack." …

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