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DDoS Protection Services
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are weapons of mass disruption.
Unlike access attacks that penetrate security perimeters to steal information,
DDoS attacks paralyze Internet systems by swamping servers, network links and
network devices (routers, firewalls, etc.) with bogus traffic.
DDoS is emerging as the weapon of choice for hackers, political “hacktivists”
and international cyber-terrorists. Easily launched against limited defenses,
DDoS attacks target not only individual Web sites or other servers at the edge
of the network - they subdue the network itself. Attacks have begun to
explicitly target the network infrastructure, like aggregation or core routers,
or DNS servers in a provider's network. In October 2002, a harbinger of future
large-scale attacks was a crude DDoS attack that affected eight of the 13 root
Domain Name Service (DNS) servers, critical systems serving as the roadmap for
virtually all Internet communications.
The growing dependence on the Internet makes the impact of successful DDoS
attacks — financial and otherwise — increasingly painful for service providers,
enterprises and government agencies. And newer, more powerful DDoS tools
promise to unleash even more destructive attacks in the months and years to
come.
The Solution - SureArmour sm - DDoS Protection Services
DataPipe delivers a complete DDoS protection solution based on the principles
of detection, diversion, verification and forwarding to ensure total
protection. When a DDoS attack is launched against a victim protected by the
solution, business continuity is maintained by:
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Detecting the DDoS attack
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Diverting the data traffic destined for the target device to a Riverhead appliance for treatment
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Analyzing and filtering the bad data packets from the good data packets, preventing malicious traffic
from impacting performance while allowing legitimate transactions to complete
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Forwarding the good traffic to maintain business continuity
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