Anti-DDOS Alliance In The Works?

Rackemup writes: "This article on ZDNET says McAfee and some anti-DDOS vendors are finally teaming up to address DDOS attacks and Code-Red-like network scanning. Seems like they're finally catching on that a purely reactive approach to Internet and virus attacks isn't going to cut it anymore, even after all the media coverage of these latest virus attacks there are still loads of zombie machines out there merrily scanning away, looking for others to infect."

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The hardware companies need to be involved too

[Ryu2]

Stopping these DDOS attacks in software is a step, but still, you're using bandwidth and CPU cycles you otherwise wouldn't have. Network infrastructure companies like Cisco etc. could probably play a good role.

Imagine if routers could be dynamically updated to intelligently scan traffic for DDOS attack patterns and block these before any host in the internal network even sees it.

MIT has done a lot of work in this area of "Active Networking".