Google Releases Project Shield To Fight Against DDoS Attacks (thestack.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Google has launched a free tool to help all media sites and and other organisations protect themselves against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The Project Shield initiative allows websites to redirect traffic through Google's existing infrastructure, in order to keep their content online in the face of such attacks. Google will aim to work with smaller sites which do not necessarily have the money or are not fully equipped with strong enough infrastructure to the attacks. However, the Shield tool has also been made available to larger outlets, such as popular news sites and human rights platforms.

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Re: Free?

[bill_mcgonigle]

A broken WWW earns Google no money. Until we can defeat the botnet scourge, clean up reflection / amplification problems, and secure all the end points, offering stop-gap assistance may well aid their long-term revenue picture. It's perfectly rational to be nice and seek profit in the same venture.