Cloudflare CEO: DDoS Attacks Will Now Be ‘Something You Only Read About In The History Books’
Found on Motherboard on Monday, 25 September 2017
The company announced Monday that every customer—including those who only use its free services—will receive a new feature called Unmetered Mitigation, which protects against every DDoS attack, regardless of its size.
Prince agreed that Unmetered Mitigation has the power to render DDoS an activist tool of the past. It "will make DDoSing people not an effective protest mechanism," he told me.
While this is a laudable approach, the problem has to be solved where it begins: insecure IoT devices. Maybe Cloudflare can now really handle anything thrown at them, or maybe bot herders just have better things to do than make their bots public.