Is TAMOnline protected against the kind of Denial of Service attacks that have been in the news lately?
Denial of Service (DOS) attacks basically overwhelm the capacity of the target by flooding the device with more traffic than it can handle. DOS attacks are prevented by having policies in place on the equipment that cause it to ignore repeated requests from the same source(s) for services that can cause this type of flood effect (like PING). One of the benefits of being in a Tier 1 Data Center is that the network traffic coming into the center is monitored for these types of traffic patterns and, when a pattern is identified, the source ports are shut down before the destination equipment can be overwhelmed. In addition, the load balancers and firewalls that are in place at TAMOnline can also recognize these DOS attacks and take corrective action to ward off problems.
