Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack mitigation service

The growing prevalence of criminally motivated distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) calls for a fundamental rethink in how you approach the issue of maintaining website availability. DDoS attacks were initially targeted towards gaming sites and payment providers but there are growing signs that the criminals behind these attacks are moving on to attacking any site. Having your web site unavailable (possibly for up to five days) during a DDoS attack is likely to cause you significant financial loss. Recently retailers, financial institutions and governments have become targets.

Trends in most of the security surveys report growth in malware that creates networks of robots or zombie PCs. These machines are infected with remote control hacks that lie dormant until the relevant control station sends out a denial of service command. With the number of these networks increasing the price that needs to be paid to make use of one is lowering. USA Today recently reported a 20,000 machine network offered for $2,000.

The problem websites face when being attacked by tens of thousands of machines is the inability of being able to cope with the flood of traffic. This flood overloads firewalls and upstream links taking the site off the air.

Our DDoS attack mitigation service uses a sophisticated multi-verification process to filter out all but legitimate traffic to your web site. Using this service you are able to operate as normal even under a sustained attack.

Please contact us for more information on this service.