What we learned following a DDoS attack

John Leonard
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A DDoS attack on the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead taught IT chief Rocco Labellarte that ticking boxes for compliance is not enough

A while ago (the local authority didn't want to disclose exactly when), Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead suffered an attempt to bring down its systems via a distributed denial of service (DD...

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