CableLabs, the venerable industry association that develops a heap of technologies in support of cable operators, has unveiled a DDoS prevention system that looks to detect and block traffic at the network level – for both internal and external attacks. Called Transparent Security, it could help solve a looming problem, and prevent users from getting egg on their face down the line. Transparent Security (we already hate this name) uses In-band Network Technology (INT) to monitor network traffic. It looks for suspicious behavior, and can then block traffic emanating from a rogue device on a home network. For instance, if a smart speaker was compromised, and started reaching out to a known command-and-control server, an operator using Transparent Security could…