Surviving a DDoS attack can be really challenging and overcoming the bad exposure you’ll have gotten and/or explaining the downtime and disruption to your customers isn’t easy either. So taking the necessary steps to have a secured dedicated server is evermore incredibly important to your dedicated hosting environment.
So do you know how to secure your dedicated server?
Here’s a quick checklist to help you secure your server:
SYN Cookies – These are helpful because they deny any connections that are not verifiable
Firewalls – Just like on your home computer, server firewalls are meant to prevent malicious attacks and to keep your information safe. However, don’t let a firewall ease your fears, as many DDoS attacks are becoming too complex for even the best firewall to prevent.
Switches – These can limit, prevent, and filter the DDoS attacks and also alert you to their presence, which is a great help as you try to recover.
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March 20th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
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