What CTOs Fear Most

Re:What CTOs Fear Most by jjoe on Thursday October 10, 2013 @04:01PM (#6529708)

I'm confused that none of them expressed fear of being the target of a serious DDoS attack. Is it regarded as such a black swan event that it's not even in the radar?

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Re:What CTOs Fear Most by arohner on Thursday October 10, 2013 @04:08PM (#6529736)

That's one of those 'good problems'.

step 1) worry about how to get big enough that people even know who you are, and think that DDoSing is worth their time

step 2) worry about how to deal with the DDoS

completing step 1 is much, much harder :-)

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Re:What CTOs Fear Most by LeBlanc on Thursday October 10, 2013 @04:42PM (#6529918)

There's not a lot you can to do prevent your site from being targeted by a DDoS attack.

If you are unfortunate enough to get DDoS'd you probably have enough money to pay for a service like Prolexic, etc that will shield you almost entirely from DDoS attacks. DDoS protection services are used to people signing up during an attack, so they are usually pretty quick to implement. The downside is that services like this tend to be expensive and can mess up regular traffic (especially if you are providing an API).

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Re:What CTOs Fear Most by mwetzler on Thursday October 10, 2013 @05:10PM (#6530058)

That's what the CTO of Stanford Hospital listed as his biggest fear, interview #3 in the series (not in this post, but the one before it).

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