[January 29, 2014] |
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Defense.Net Launches DDoS Frontline: A Primary DDoS Mitigation Service With 10x the Capacity of Legacy Services to Defend Businesses Against Damaging Cyber Attacks
BELMONT, Calif. --(Business Wire)--
Defense.Net,
the only company designed to mitigate the increasing scale and
sophistication of modern Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks,
today announced the launch of DDoS Frontline, a new primary DDoS
mitigation service designed to protect businesses and organizations
against the increasing threat of modern DDoS
attacks that have disabled their web and business operations. DDoS
Frontline combines a network provisioned with 10 times the bandwidth and
mitigation capacity per customer of the leading primary DDoS mitigation
providers with breakthrough new technologies specifically designed to
counter the latest and most powerful DDoS attack techniques, ensuring
continuous operations for customers. It also eliminates the harmful side
effects created by legacy DDoS mitigation techniques.
"Since Weebly was founded in 2006, we have been somewhat unique in
building our own infrastructure in-house, including our DDoS mitigation
capabilities," said Chris Fanini, Co-Founder and CTO of Weebly, a
website creation service which has enabled more than 20 million people
to create their own high-quality websites. "While this infrastructure
has served us well in successfully thwarting DDoS attacks in the past,
we've recently seen an increasing number of attacks that are larger and
more complex than before. By partnering with Defense.Net and utilizing
their massive distributed scrubbing centers, we remain protected from
these larger DDoS attacks - enabling us to remain focused on delivering
our users a high-quality experience."
In DDoS attacks, perpetrators assemble an army of compromised computers
(a botnet) to inundate a website with a volume of requests that
overwhelms and crashes the website. Recently, the ease of access to
sophisticated attack tools has advanced to a level where a botnet that
can do millions of dollars of damage within minutes can be rented for $7
per hour, making these powerful attack tools widely available to anyone
with a grudge, even with minimal technical knowledge. Motivations range
from political and religious hacktivists, extortionists, business
competitors and even disgruntled customers and former employees.
DDoS Frontline protects against the entire spectrum of DDoS attacks,
from low-level Layer 7 attacks to the increasingly frequent large-scale
attacks, including those that have overwhelmed traditional DDoS
mitigation services and exceeded the size of the Internet pipe before
any traffic can even reach an organization's mitigation equipment. The
benefits over legacy DDoS mitigation services include:
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Fastest Time to Mitigation:
Defense.Net's proprietary DefenseActioner technology intercepts each
packet of traffic, determines its legitimac, and automatically routes
it to the most appropriate of Defense.Net's several hundred different
mitigation solutions for the industry's fastest time-to-mitigation. It
breaks down multi-layer attacks into their components for more
thorough mitigation via the only systems specifically designed to
mitigate each attack vector, versus legacy DDoS solutions that have a
"one box does all" approach. Additionally, legacy DDoS mitigation
services are based on having a human in the process. The new
technologies created by Barrett Lyon and the Defense.Net team have
automated the process where mitigation decisions and actions can be
taken at the millisecond level, far faster than a human can respond.
When needed, a human can be inserted into the Defense.Net mitigation
process.
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All Internet Services Protected:
While DDoS attacks have traditionally been aimed at the Web operations
of their targets, hackers are increasingly attacking non-Web based
protocols which are the foundation of many of the mission critical
applications housed within the datacenter (NTP,TELNET, FTP, SNMP,
SMTP, POP-3, CHARGEN, MIME and DNS).
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Eliminates Mitigation Side Effects:
Defense.Net technologies eliminate the damaging side effects created
by legacy DDoS mitigation solutions such as false positives, blocked
users, fraud alerts, fragmentation, slow page loads, broken links, and
stalled or timed out video streams. Unlike existing solutions,
Defense.Net can put out the fire without breaking windows and getting
water all over the place to do so.
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Highest Levels of Visibility Before,
During and After an Attack: Defense.Net Frontline
includes Defense.Net AttackView™, the only interactive customer portal
to instantly provide the detailed information on an attack in
real-time, as well as post-attack analysis. AttackView breaks down
each attack into a unique timeline "story" and contains information on
attack type, source and size and also the mitigation techniques
utilized. It includes data not typically provided by leading DDoS
mitigation services, including attack origin, diagnostics of the
attack traffic, specific mitigations performed, the result of each
mitigation vector on attack traffic, and how each attack responds and
morphs based on the specific mitigations performed.
"DDoS attacks have grown significantly in the past 18 months, taking
down even some of the largest and most heavily defended websites," said
Chris Risley, CEO of Defense.Net. "DDoS Frontline offers an entirely new
set of network technologies specifically designed to protect large
enterprises and critical infrastructure from today's DDoS attacks and
the growing number of actors carrying out these attacks."
Defense.Net Frontline is based on the following components:
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Largest Network & Mitigation Capacity:
Abundant network bandwidth is a key element to fighting any DDoS
attack and Defense.Net has developed proprietary technologies that
enable it to mitigate DDoS attacks using bandwidth more efficiently
than legacy DDoS mitigation services. Its massive, fully redundant
datacenters have the ability to mitigate in excess of 100% of its
network capacity. This network, built from the world's most trusted
Tier 1 and Tier 2 carriers, has 10 times the network and mitigation
capacity per customer than its closest competitor
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Veteran Team: The
Defense.Net "Zero Day Team" includes the best and brightest DDoS
mitigation experts and network operators in the world, including
veterans of Prolexic, Verisign, BitGravity, Juniper, Box (News - Alert).net and
Apple's security team. Defense.Net Founder and CTO Barrett Lyon
created the DDoS mitigation industry more than 10 years ago when he
founded Prolexic Technologies. This led to his pursuit of hackers
operating as part of the Russian mob, as chronicled in the
best-selling book, Fatal System Error by Joseph Menn.
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Proprietary Technologies:
Defense.Net's DefenseD platform of new technologies was custom built
to respond to today's modern attacks. These technologies, developed by
Barrett Lyon, include traffic inspection technologies such as Traffic
Spectrum (News - Alert)TM (a new technique for breaking multi-layer
attacks into their components for more thorough mitigation), traffic
routing technologies such as DefenseActioner™ and IP Reflection™ (a
patent-pending asymmetric approach for delivering clean traffic back
to the organization under attack), and traffic scrubbing technologies
such as SYNAssure™ (a new technique for mitigating SYN Flood attacks
that detects suspect SYN requests and conducts further analysis before
blocking).
"The DDoS threat is constantly morphing and requires that businesses
have the most current defenses in place," said Defense.Net founder and
CTO Barrett Lyon. "In addition to the best technologies, network and
team, Defense.Net is providing enterprises with the highest levels of
transparency and customer service. We understand the concerns of the
companies we're protecting and understand that "false positives" are
more than an acceptable side effect of mitigation - they're your
customers."
About Defense.Net
Founded by Barrett Lyon, who created the Distributed Denial of Service
(DDoS) attack mitigation industry more than 10 years ago, Defense.Net
has combined the top minds in the DDoS space with breakthrough new
technologies designed to effectively address today's and tomorrow's DDoS
mitigation challenges. It is the only company to defend businesses and
organizations against this new generation of massive and sophisticated
DDoS attacks while delivering the highest levels of Internet application
performance - two areas where legacy DDoS mitigation services have not
been able to match the modern strategies of today's cyberattackers. With
increasing threats from the escalating scale and complexity of DDoS
attacks and a growing number of antagonists willing to use them,
Defense.Net protects organizations from modern attacks by providing
end-users with a seamless experience as if no attack were occurring. The
company has raised more than $9.5M in debt and equity financing with
investors that include visionary security and Internet investor Bessemer
Venture Partners (BVP).
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