Results for: DOS and DDOS Protection
Deliver Your Existing Applications to IPv6 Clients
Delivering applications to IPv6 clients is no more an option – it’s a necessity. So what is the least disruptive way to ensure that you deliver your applications running on your internal IPv4 network to your customers, partners and remote employees connected via IPv6. That’s where comes a device like NetScaler with its capabilities to seamlessly connect IPv4 and IPv6 with each other on ...
Using NetScaler to protect against High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC) attacks
Another busy month of attacks in January, this time it is about High Orbit Ion Canon (HOIC) that is an app to facilitate DDoS attacks on web servers. See below for latest blog analysis on this. It has link to both HOIC and LOIC (Low Orbit ION Canon) with details of the different attack approaches such LOIC using Java script embedded in a web page, ...
Applications, Applications, Applications…. Find out what NetScaler does special about them
We know NetScaler belongs to the segment called ADC, the Application Delivery Controller segment. What’s new about it? Now the question to ask is how many times we have deployed NetScaler from Application point of view than as a network appliance? If NetScaler belongs to ADC which is meant to control overall Application delivery, why we look at it from network view point more often ...
SYN206: Citrix networking: blazing performance, deep application visibility and unparalleled security
“Citrix” and “Networking”, the terms which go hand in hand today are because of the fact that Citrix owns great Networking portfolio with the core Application delivery and WAN optimization products like NetScaler and Branch Repeater. These are huge product lines to cover in single blog thus we will focus on NetScaler aspect for now.The NetScaler product line set very high bar in terms of ...
Securing the cloud with NetScaler MPX, VPX and SDX
In a previous Citrix blog, Netscaler’s capabilities for protecting and securing the delivery of desktop, enterprise or SaaS based services to customers/employees over any network are highlighted. In addition, Cloud Gateway and Cloud Bridge are already highlighted in the blog. So, I thought it would be good to go into a little bit more detail on how some of the features in NetScaler can provide security ...
DOS and DDOS Configuration

Protection against DOS and DDOSI previously discussed the concept of DOS and DDOS. This post describes the procedures to configure HTTP DoS protection on the Citrix Next Generation Firewall.Enable HTTP DoS Add an HTTP DoS policy Add a service Bind the monitor Bind the service to the policy Note: For information about using the CLI to configure this feature, see the Command Reference Guide.To enable HTTP DoS in the ...
DOS and DDOS Protection

Preventing Denial of ServiceBack in the day when I first began setting up labs on the internet, in the DMZ, outside of the firewall, I was warned. I threw caution to the wind and continued forward with my work. About a year later my methods had changed due to all of my experiences and all that I had witnessed. Some of the ...
Riots, The World Cup, and DNS
There would have been rioting in the street. I cannot emphasize that enough -- rioting. The LA Riots included business owners standing on rooftops with shot guns... This group would have made the 1992 LA Riots look like a pleasant tea party.In the days leading up to the World Cup, the content provider that was rebroadcasting games on the Internet in South Korea had racks ...
DDOS protection from the ” good ” guys
In case you missed it there is a really interesting story circulating on the Net, best told by Jim Louderback the CEO of Revision3 and victim of a DDOS attack over Memorial day weekend ( his Blog & CNET interview ). If you're a fan of Revision3 you already know that they got taken off-line for 3 days, if your not you may want to ...