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Prolexic Releases Free DDoS Protection Planning Tool to Help Organizations Build Stronger Defenses
June 2013 by Marc Jacob
Prolexic announced that it has released a role-based version of PLXplanner, the company’s free, online DDoS protection planning tool. PLXplanner is a strategic risk assessment and planning tool to help IT and security professionals build a better defense against increasingly powerful and sophisticated DDoS attacks. Based on answers entered in a role-based quiz, PLXplanner delivers strategic recommendations for improving business, technology or operational strategies to fight DDoS attacks.
Last year, Prolexic introduced the industry’s most detailed DDoS Downtime Calculator. Since then Prolexic has reworked and refocused the online tool to deliver more strategic value. Renamed PLXplanner, the tool now delivers specific DDoS defense guidance and best-practice recommendations rather than bottom line numbers.
The operations planner, for example, asks questions about security architecture, application testing, monitoring capabilities, web team availability and more.
If your company already has website availability monitoring in place, PLXplanner will recommend including synthetic transactions, such a login to a test account. Why? Because an attacker can target back-end databases via HTTP application attacks (such as a POST attack). In that case, the website may appear to be online even though users cannot log in.
