I have another question for you !
Sony tweeted they are working hard to bring back the PSN online ... what are their engineer doing to restore the services ?
Man, to be a fly on the wall of the boardroom meetings that must have been going on since the attack ... two days ago? I'm losing my sense of time.
Honestly though, I can only guess at what must be going on. We don't really know what happened at their datacenters and with their DDoS mitigation company. I actually expected PSN to be more or less up and running at 90% again by now. That it's not, might mean multiple things:
- There might still be an attack going on, that we're just not hearing about?
- There might have been an intrusion attempt that happened during the DDoS, using it as a smokescreen, and now Sony is trying to figure out what was taken or seen?
- They might be using this downtime to integrate more solutions from the DDoS mitigation partner?
- Everyone that has keys to the PSN server room is on holiday with their cellphones off? (This is a joke).
So who knows. It might be all of the above, minus that last one.
Is it any use to bring in one of these DDoS mitigation services this late in the game, or is that more of a preventative measure?
Both Sony and MS have DDoS Mitigation. Sony uses
www.prolexic.com while MS has their own home-spun system.