[delroth]

> They can't really be blamed for a DOS attack.

That doesn't really hold when their competitors have teams of engineers working on DDoS mitigations and successfully handle most of these attacks. Falling to a DoS is a technical failure just like other causes of outages.

[corford]

A ~1 hour response time from identifying to mitigating the DDoS isn't exactly bad. I'd say their engineers did a pretty good job.

[leblancfg]

Security really isn't my strong suit, but isn't it standard practice to automate DDoS mitigation strategies?

[corford]

Depends on the type and size of the DDoS and where on the network path it's hitting.

[abpavel]

DoS is a threat from identifiable source, like Russia. DDoS looks just like normal users, like terrorist sleeping cells.