Etienne WEHRLE

CDN & Cybersecurity Engineer - Web performance & security at CDN Tech / Ecritel
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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Almost 5 years ago

Commented on Putting the Fastly Outage in Perspective

"Imperva Incapsula’s stability is what stood out for a vice president of global IT security at an insurance company. He noted, “The stability of the solution is very good. I've never heard of any outages that I'm aware of. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or…

About 5 years ago

Answered a question: How does a WAF help to protect against DDoS attacks?

If you mean layer7 (applicative) DDoS attack (to deny the service with requests that increase the workload of the web servers), yes a WAF is the best solution (cloud or on-premise, each has advantages). If you mean network DDoS attack (layer 3 & 4), you need any cloud-based…

About 5 years ago

Answered a question: DDoS solutions: Any other solutions to consider aside from Radware DDoS Protection Service and F5 Silverline DDoS Protection?

If you need it, please find article about Gartner Magic Quadrant for cloud WFA (including DDoS mitigation tools): https://www.imperva.com/blog/imperva-a-seven-time-magic-quadrant-leader-and-named-highest-for-completeness-of-vision-for-waf

About 5 years ago

Answered a question: When evaluating CDN, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?

-Deployment speed (initial and changes) -Delivery speed -Flexibility (can I configure exactly what I need) / testing platform

About 5 years ago

Answered a question: How does a CDN protect against DDoS attacks?

Layer 3 or 4 DDoS are absorbed by the CDN as design (IP, TCP ,UDP), the high volume doesn't reach your origin server so you are automatically protected But in case of layer 7 DDoS, all application attacks (SQL injections, XSS, Remote file inclusion), you need a Web…

About 5 years ago

Answered a question: If I have a CDN, do I have to worry about DDoS attacks?

Over 5 years ago

Contributed a review of Uplynk: Good rules engine, efficient and performs well, and provides a staging environment for testing

Over 5 years ago

Contributed a review of Fastly: Good performance, powerful configuration capability, and helpful real-time graphics

Over 5 years ago

Answered a question: DDoS solutions: Any other solutions to consider aside from Radware DDoS Protection Service and F5 Silverline DDoS Protection?

You can have a look to Imperva Cloud WAF, the anti-DDoS mitigation is under 1s and works very well. I observed a lot of DDoS attacks that were well managed (even not seen by the customer) by Imperva, I can recommend it (try it with a trial, you'll be able to have your own…

Over 5 years ago

Contributed a review of Imperva Application Security Platform: A good solution that allows us to protect websites. It is stable, scalable, quick and easy to use

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Reviews

Over 5 years ago

Uplynk

Good rules engine, efficient and performs well, and provides a staging environment for testing

Over 5 years ago

Fastly

Good performance, powerful configuration capability, and helpful real-time graphics

Over 5 years ago

Imperva Application Security Platform

A good solution that allows us to protect websites. It is stable, scalable, quick and easy to use

Answers

About 5 years ago

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

How does a WAF help to protect against DDoS attacks?

About 5 years ago

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

DDoS solutions: Any other solutions to consider aside from Radware DDoS Protection Service and F5 Silverline DDoS Protection?

About 5 years ago

CDN

When evaluating CDN, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?

About 5 years ago

CDN

How does a CDN protect against DDoS attacks?

About 5 years ago

CDN

If I have a CDN, do I have to worry about DDoS attacks?

Over 5 years ago

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

DDoS solutions: Any other solutions to consider aside from Radware DDoS Protection Service and F5 Silverline DDoS Protection?

Comments

Almost 5 years ago

CDN

Putting the Fastly Outage in Perspective

About me

Passionate about IT and new technologies, I am lucky not to have the feel of working when I exercise my job. The challenges change quickly, the technology evolves and we must constantly adapt to these changes, this is what makes the IT missions so interesting for me.
I'm currently specialized in web performance and security as CDN & Cybersecurity Engineer (CDN/WAF/DDoS Mitigation)