There are ways in which the many stakeholders involved in improving the Internet can reduce the threat of DDoS attacks. One of the most notable examples of joint collaboration came out of the Network Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task … [Read more...] about Are there Best Practices for the Entire Internet to Help Mitigate Against DDoS Attacks?
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New Scrubbing Center in Nigeria from 21st Century Technologies & Nexusguard
Today, 21st Century Technologies Limited, a leading computing firm in Nigeria, announced its partnership with Nexusguard, the San Francisco & Asia based DDoS mitigation company, to build its DDoS scrubbing center in Nigeria. The scrubbing center … [Read more...] about New Scrubbing Center in Nigeria from 21st Century Technologies & Nexusguard
MarketsandMarkets Report Says DDoS Protection and Mitigation Market will be Worth 4.10 Billion by 2023
A new report published by MarketsandMarkets anticipates that the DDoS Protection and Mitigation Market size will grow from $1.94B in 2018 to $4.10B by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 16.1% across that period. The report aims to … [Read more...] about MarketsandMarkets Report Says DDoS Protection and Mitigation Market will be Worth 4.10 Billion by 2023
Princeton Machine Learning Detection of IoT DDoS
Researchers at Princeton just published a set of encouraging results showing that real-time detection of IoT DDoS attacks is possible using machine learning techniques. The Princeton team decided to focus on detecting IoT DDoS attacks because of … [Read more...] about Princeton Machine Learning Detection of IoT DDoS
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: 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
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: Imperva Incapsula
Imperva Incapsula has a growing global network with 27 data centers around the world (focused in North America, Europe and Asia), which gives it a huge network capacity and large-scale scrubbing capacities as well. Imperva claims its network of local … [Read more...] about DDoS Protection Service: Imperva Incapsula
How to Select a DDoS Protection Service: Part II
Numerous factors are important in selecting a DDoS protection service. As we covered in the first post, three of the most important areas to look at are infrastructure, methodology and deployment. Two further categories to consider include the level … [Read more...] about How to Select a DDoS Protection Service: Part II
How to Select a DDoS Protection Service: Part I
Threat mitigation and protection involves three elements: infrastructure, methodology and deployment. You need a provider who can supply all three protection layers. Their network needs to be able to handle heavy traffic and have an elastic … [Read more...] about How to Select a DDoS Protection Service: Part I