DDoS attacks are increasingly being used as ploys to attract security resources and attention. Growing numbers of organizations are complementing their volumetric attack defenses with web application firewalls (WAFs) WAFs defend against application layer attacks that can include, but arent limited to session hijacking, XSS attacks, CSRF attacks and buffer overflows. Neustar recently introduced a cloud-based service that adds a WAF to its DDoS identification and mitigation services, paired with its always-on DDoS mitigation service.”]