BrianKrebs on Nostr: BTW I have no idea how much Google has spent protecting just my site over the past 7 ...
BTW I have no idea how much Google has spent protecting just my site over the past 7 years, but it has to be a LOT. The economics of defending dinky sites like mine don't scale very well and sometimes require some fairly custom solutions. I just remember after I exited Akamai's protective harbor and started casting about for pricing on DDoS protection, the figures I was quoted were more than I made in a year, and could expand dramatically depending on how evil the adversary wanted to be.
I wrote about this in more detail not long after I put the site behind Shield.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/02/how-google-took-on-mirai-krebsonsecurity/Published at
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