One thing I wanted to ask, given your exprience in DDoS attacks. We are putting in place a DDoS mitigation strategy and finding a wide variability in pricing from different vendors.
Near as I can tell, the difference between the low end like CloudFlare's $200/mth plan and the $5K-$10K/mth vendors like Prolexic is the support offered for a layer 7 attack. Is that a reasonable summary?
It seems like all vendors offer a reasonable level of layer 3-4 filtering but that if there's a layer 7 attack the high end vendors have the sophisticated tools and methodology to help the customer figure out how to mitigate the attack.
If this perspective is reasonable, how susceptible you think a product like XXX is to a layer 7 attack? I'd hate to buy insurance we don't really need.
The difference is a lot in integration. CloudFlare is only really a CDN at the heart of it, so what you're paying for is that with some DDoS stuff built in. If an attacker gets wind of this, and finds out your origin and decides to