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brador on April 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bloomberg Terminals Suffer Widespread Failures

How do they protect the ticker tape thing from attacks, like say, a DDOS?

chinathrow on April 17, 2015 | [–]

If the data is mission critical to your company, you consume the feed via private leased lines or interconnects.

gaius on April 17, 2015 | [–]

The same way that ALL important systems should be protected: by not connecting them to the Internet in the first place.

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