VoIP DDoS Preparations – update
By Simon Woodhead It has been a week or so since we last updated on the emerging threat, so we wanted to update you. Whilst nobody (except George W Bush) wants to be the one…
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VoIP DDoS Preparations – Mandatory Testing
By Simon Woodhead Alongside recent posts here (this, this and this), shared with our mailing list, Status Page notifications drawing attention to them, and of course our Community Slack, we have highlighted on Slack voluntary…
VoIP DDoS Preparations – Remember your Regulatory Obligations
By Peter Farmer There’s a bit of a fracas going on now, as we know from reports about sustained and targeted DDoS attacks against at least two voice providers. We do not know why these…
VoIP DDoS Preparations – IMPORTANT customer update
By Simon Woodhead Following our update on Friday, we have been monitoring the evolving DDoS situation and leveraging our industry reach to get the inside track from those on the front-line of assisting current victims.…
VoIP DDoS – Fail to Prepare…
By Simon Woodhead There’s a scenario that has kept me awake at night for getting on a decade. Regular readers will know this because I’ve banged on and on about it. It underlies the scale…
Surviving somebody else’s DDoS
Many customers route traffic to us over the public Internet. Given the way our network is architected and our policies, most of this comes to us over peering. If you have equipment with almost any…
Simwood launches DDoS Security solution
As you may have read in the press, we have today launched our DDoS and Security service. If not, you can read the press release or see an overview on our website. This marks the conclusion of…
Running Voice over the Public Internet
By Simon Woodhead Over many years I’ve been intolerant of lies and deceptions when it comes to “networks”. At one end of the scale you have the spivs who lie about the network they don’t…
Thanks for another interesting year!
By Simon Woodhead Wow, it felt odd writing ‘interesting year’ for the first time a few weeks ago, or at least as it seems. Actually a year on, a year further towards our self-inflicted dystopian…
Good news for AWS customers
By Simon Woodhead There’s a lot that goes on in Simwood and we move fast. Quite often, what’d be earth shattering global PR justifying an entire propaganda department elsewhere is just business as usual for…