Symmetric and Asymmetric Filtering of DDoS Attacks: What and When to Choose?
Providers of Anti-DDoS services often offer to connect protection using the asymmetric scheme: only incoming traffic is filtered — the one that goes to the protected resources, and outgoing traffic is not considered at all. In a number of other situations, they use a symmetrical scheme when not only incoming, but also outgoing traffic or service information about it is analyzed.















