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 paralyse 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 defences, DDoS attacks not only target 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, such as 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.
Growing dependence on the Internet makes the impact of successful DDoS attacks – financial and otherwise – increasingly painful for service providers, enterprises and government agencies. Newer, more powerful DDoS tools promise to unleash even more destructive attacks in the months and years to come.
The Solution – DDoS Protection Services
Hyve 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:
- Detecting the DDoS attack
- Diverting the data traffic destined for the target device to a Riverhead appliance for treatment
- Analysing and filtering the bad data packets from the good data packets, preventing malicious traffic from impacting performance while allowing legitimate transactions to complete
- Forwarding the good traffic to maintain business continuity
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