Should geo-blocking be an option for DDoS prevention?

2016 should have reinforced what security experts have been telling us over the years. Cyberattacks are not a matter of "if" anymore but "when." Last year, there was no such thing as "too big to fail" as top tech firms like Yahoo!, Dropbox, and LinkedIn all reported data breaches. Internet services provider Dyn, which is used by Twitter and Spotify, was also hit with traffic-based attacks, affecting uptime of these popular sites. Banks and government institutions also fell victim to attacks that compromised information of millions of users -- a bank in Sri Lanka even lost billions of dollars to… [Continue Reading]