How can I justify purchase of a DDoS mitigation appliance?
Here are the key justifications: 1. Without this appliance your employees will be struggling to get visibility into the attacks and waste time creating the rules to stop the attacks. This appliance automates the process and works mostly without manual intervention so that your employees can focus on your focus areas. 2. The loss of business, image can be a key reason for purchase. Some of these damages can be estimated while some will have long term implications. 3. If you are not a webhost, the alternative is to go to a webhost who has specialized DDoS mitigation equipment (chances are that it is ours). The monthly cost of the DDoS mitigation services can be recovered in less than a year based on going rates. 4. If you are a webhost, the alternative solutions, such as Arbor are too expensive and are complex to manage. IntruGuard appliances give you control and visibility into your network and ability to segregate your customers into groups and charge them differently. The pay-off with
