Now that it's public knowledge and been fully devoleped TelstraClear (DMZGlobal) have built New Zealands first Distributed Denial of Service protection offering, for those that don't know this means the blocking of multiple overload connections from multiple different sources, e.g a botnet, with the intention to crash a service.

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/DA79BBC4B7DD6E69CC2574930082521E

http://www.dmzglobal.com/dmzddos.htm

I think it's a fantastic move forward for NZ

:)