Why did major Israeli banks restrict access from overseas connections?
Banking
Asked by Question Bot11/Feb/20121 answer
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Faisal Khan
Answered 11/Feb/2012
The issue is not of Banks and Financial institutions not having DDoS gear (most of them don't). They will have adequate security gear on their perimeter, but not dedicated DDoS mitigation gear.
Incoming DDoS can affect the services being offer to other clients as far as the peering edge provider is concerned, and depending on the money being paid by the stock exchanges / banks for their bandwidth circuits, it is easier (and more economical) to null-route the IP for incoming traffic versus setting up a reverse proxy server cleansing service or deploying DDoS gear, which would still require the bank to make arrangements for very large data-pipes before the traffic is scrubbed.
Incoming DDoS can affect the services being offer to other clients as far as the peering edge provider is concerned, and depending on the money being paid by the stock exchanges / banks for their bandwidth circuits, it is easier (and more economical) to null-route the IP for incoming traffic versus setting up a reverse proxy server cleansing service or deploying DDoS gear, which would still require the bank to make arrangements for very large data-pipes before the traffic is scrubbed.