1. Introduction

1.1 Emerging mitigation services

More and more DMS offers are being hosted in the cloud, and not just on ISP-operated infrastructures.

Palliatives can be considered, such as setting up tunnels to force all incoming traffic to a site or network to be inspected by the DMS service. However, this tunneling-based engineering considerably increases the latency observed by users, and imposes sizing constraints on the DMS service to be able to handle all incoming traffic from all customers, without degrading the performance...