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Burstabit Media Selects Prolexic for Proactive DDoS Protection
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- Prolexic Technologies, the global leader in managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection, is providing enhanced DDoS protection and mitigation services to Burstabit Media, a leading provider of proprietary web-based applications and services for the online advertising industry. The Prolexic DDoS solution assures Burstabit customers of enhanced protection against devastating DDoS attacks that can render their networks unavailable.
Burstabit chose Prolexic for enhanced DDoS detection and mitigation services because the Prolexic solution offers the most comprehensive protection against the variety and size of attacks today. These include targeted attacks that take advantage of infrastructure vulnerabilities, such as limited bandwidth; consumption attacks that employ botnets to direct large amounts of traffic at a network, and resource exhaustive attacks that utilize the full processing power of a corporate server farm.
"Our customers are online marketers, ad networks and merchants who rely on available and secure web services to ensure profitability," said Frank Ouimette, president, Burstabit Media. "We want to give our customers the absolute assurance we are doing everything possible to ensure their business processes are unimpeded. That is why we are augmenting our DDoS protection through Prolexic, who has achieved the market leading position in DDoS attack mitigation."
"Burstabit is an innovative media company that plays a major role in enabling hundreds of companies to take advantage of the advertising and lead generation capabilities of the Internet," said Bill Sussman, Prolexic vice president of sales, Americas. "We consider the selection of Prolexic as Burstabit's DDoS protection partner a significant validation of our industry-leading offering."
About Burstabit
Burstabit Media provides proprietary web-based applications and services for the online advertising industry. The company's solutions are built on state-of-the-art ad serving, database and data management technology. Burstabit Media is a privately held company. For more information visit www.burstabit.com.
About Prolexic Technologies
Prolexic Technologies provides cutting edge solutions that protect Internet operations from the debilitating service disruptions caused by DDoS attacks. Prolexic keeps its clients' Internet-facing infrastructures free of DDoS traffic. Without making major adjustments or multimillion-dollar investments in their existing hardware infrastructures, Prolexic's customers rest assured that their network borders are secure and can thus focus on what is really important: their businesses. Prolexic is wholly owned by IPVG Corp. (PSE:IP). For more information visit www.prolexic.com.
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