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Why Can a Firewall stop a DDOS Attack?

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Why Can a Firewall stop a DDOS Attack?

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A Firewall can be used to filter certain kinds of traffic. As we have mentioned, if you rely on data controlled by the attacker, you could be playing into his hands. Further, the firewall does not help customers whose traffic might have been dropped further upstream because of congestion from the attack.

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