DHS awards $1.7M contract to detect, mitigate DDoS attacks

From: Federal Times

Aaron Boyd, Senior Staff Writer

One of the easiest ways to take down an organization’s IT system is through a distributed denial of service (DDoS), in which attackers flood the network with requests causing it to crash.

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The system — which Galois calls the DDoS Defense for a Community of Peers (3DCoP) — uses peer-to-peer information sharing to reduce the time from detection to action, a major factor in limiting the impact of a DDoS attack.

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