DDoS attack victims need to involve police, says Verisign CSO

With DDoS reflection attacks growing into mammoth events with unforeseen consequences, mitigation firm Verisign believes a radical new approach is needed to head off a pile of trouble – go after the “guys behind the keyboards.”

In any other part of the security industry, Verisign’s recommendation that victims on the receiving end of major DDoS incidents make the effort to work out who attacked them would now be seen as best practice but this is an industry built on mitigation – blocking – rather than investing in deterrence.

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