D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

[rdobbins at arbor.net (Dobbins, Roland)]

On Jan 5, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Darren Bolding wrote:

> I believe their is strong evidence that the use of web application firewalls to meet this DSS requirement is smaller than you might think.  I would not be surprised if it was significantly less than 50%- perhaps 20%.

This directly contradicts my experience working for vendor of such products, FWIW. 

But I hope this is indeed the case, as it will lead to higher availability for organizations which go this route!

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