Scrubbing Center
A centralized data cleansing station where traffic is
analyzed and malicious traffic (ddos, known vulnerabilities and exploits) is
removed. Scrubbing centers are often used in large enterprises, such as ISP and
Cloud providers, as they often prefer to off-ramp traffic to an out of path
centralized data cleansing station. When under attack, the traffic is redirected
(typically using DNS or BGP) to the scrubbing center where an attack mitigation
system mitigates the attack traffic and passes clean traffic back to the network
for delivery. The scrubbing center should be equipped to sustain high volumetric
floods at the network and application layers, low and slow attacks, RFC
Compliance checks, known vulnerabilities and zero day
anomalies.
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