Nexusguard, a specialist in DDoS attack mitigation, produces a security threat report on a quarterly basis, based on the real-time data it collects year-round on threats facing businesses and service-provider networks around the globe. Nexusguard … [Read more...] about Nexusguard DDoS Threat Report for Q4-2017
DDoS Protection Services
China Unicom Launches one of the World’s Largest DDoS Protection Systems
China Unicom, one of China’s largest communication service providers, is now building what it describes as “its biggest DDoS protection and mitigation system ever”. China Unicom is working in partnership with Taiwan-based security provider Genie … [Read more...] about China Unicom Launches one of the World’s Largest DDoS Protection Systems
Arbor Networks 13th Security Report: Key Findings
In October 2017, NETSCOUT Arbor collected data from 390 individuals within the operational security community to compile the company’s 13th annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR). 128 freeform and multiple choice questions were asked … [Read more...] about Arbor Networks 13th Security Report: Key Findings
DDoS Protection Service: Nexusguard
Nexusguard is seen as one of the top DDoS protection services for small and medium-sized organizations, which in addition to mitigating attacks will also optimize your online content through its role as a CDN and its global presence. Its service … [Read more...] about DDoS Protection Service: Nexusguard
DDoS Protection Service: Google’s Cloud Armor
Google launched its own DDoS protection service this week called Cloud Armor. In a blog post, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) rolled it out with several other new services, designed to boost security. These include a dashboard covering various GCP … [Read more...] about DDoS Protection Service: Google’s Cloud Armor
DDoS Protection Service: Neustar
Neustar provides information services and analytics to marketers and other industries drawing on big-data analysis. As part of their portfolio of solutions, Neustar also offers DDoS protection. The company’s SiteProtect NG offers a massive 10TBP of … [Read more...] about DDoS Protection Service: Neustar
DDoS Protection Service: Verisign
Verisign provides Internet infrastructure services and was founded in 1995. Its initial focus was on domain names and operating two of the Internet’s thirteen root nameservers; however, it also offers in-depth cyber security services. This includes … [Read more...] about DDoS Protection Service: Verisign
DDoS Protection Service: Kentik
Kentik offers its DDoS protection in the context of being primarily focused on big data traffic intelligence. The San Francisco-headquartered company formerly known as CloudHelix provides network visibility and performance solutions. Its main … [Read more...] about DDoS Protection Service: Kentik
DDoS Protection Service: Akamai
Akamai is one of the world’s largest DDoS protection service providers. It offers two kinds of service that use different protection measures: Prolexic and Kona Site Defender. Prolexic is grounded in border gateway protocol (BGP) that routes … [Read more...] about DDoS Protection Service: Akamai
DDoS Protection Service: Verizon
Verizon Enterprise Solutions, previously known as EdgeCast Networks, entered the cloud security space with their own WAF product in 2014. The CDN has offered network layer DDoS protection to its customers at no additional cost since its outset, … [Read more...] about DDoS Protection Service: Verizon
Corero Issues a “Kill Switch” Against MemCaching DDoS Attacks
Researchers at DDoS protection firm Corero Network Security have released a post stating that the memcached amplification attacks that hit GitHub and other networks over the last week with the largest ever DDoS attacks can be disarmed with a … [Read more...] about Corero Issues a “Kill Switch” Against MemCaching DDoS Attacks
DDoS Protection Service: F5 Networks
F5 Networks recently acquired Defense.net, which has led it to alter its services, now offering cloud-based, on-site and hybrid deployment methods. F5 Silverline Protection is well equipped for sophisticated and volumetric DDoS attacks. In terms of … [Read more...] about DDoS Protection Service: F5 Networks
DDoS Protection Service: Cloudflare
Cloudflare offers a variety of security features alongside its CDN services, always including DDoS protection and a range of pricing tiers, including a free option. All four pricing options include unmetered mitigation of DDoS attacks; the business … [Read more...] about DDoS Protection Service: Cloudflare
DDoS Protection Service: DOSarrest
DOSarrest has been in operation for over 11 years of experience, and specializes in DDoS protection in addition to offering CDN and other services. It claims to guarantee is customers “99.99% uptime” and offers a global network capacity of a huge 3 … [Read more...] about DDoS Protection Service: DOSarrest
DDoS Protection Service: Arbor Cloud
Arbor Cloud offers an extremely large network of 8TB of bandwidth, meaning it is well prepared for volumetric attacks. The security division of NetScout more than doubled the capacity of Arbor Cloud from 2Tbps to 4 Tbps across the first half of 2017, … [Read more...] about DDoS Protection Service: Arbor Cloud