Last week, one of my clients had multiple DDOS attacks, such as Syn-flood, UDP network attacks, and HTTP get floods at rates of 90K to 700K packets per second. DDos and http get attacks was so large that it shut down their web-servers which resulted in a complete network outage for several days. Once we were notified of the problem, my facility manager, Mike Mazzei and our Engineer, Payam Tarverdyan Phychi, initiated our DDos Shield service to mitigate their traffic. Our DDos Shield utilizes the latest bleeding edge technology devices which is made up of multiple vendors.
Our DDos Shield uses high end ASIC boards to process/analyze the packets which decreases latency when new devises are introduced into the mesh. This allows the security devices to scrub the packets to determine good vs bad packets based not only on signatures but also behavioral aspects and sourced based filtering. In a severe attack (over 200KPPS or depending on how large the traffic rate is) our DDoS Shield will work with our Cisco/Juniper Routers to distribute traffic over several of our upstream providers to allow multiple ingress points for the attack and as such reduces the changes of saturating any given transit or transport. Once the distributed mode has been activated, all traffic will be automatically routed within the peer1 backbone and sent to designated locations designed to handle attacks upwards of 10 Million packets/sec and up to 5gigs/sce. This number will drastically increase in the weeks to come.
This customer operates a social networking site that was enabled during these attacks. Once on our DDoS Shield service he was back up in hours after initiating the service. If you would like more information regarding our DDoS Shield or any of our services you can contact me at woody@globalcoloquote.com or Ypigsfly.com.
I’m shocked that you are boasting “he was back up in hours after initiating the service”
What you are actually saying is that his site was down because the DDoS mitigation servic he had subscribed to was useless.
What is the cost to this business whilst off-line?
You obviously need to provide this client with a “Guarantee of Service Technology”, might I suggest that you search google for this term and you will find technology which will keep your client online permanently NOT after the service has been initiated.
Regards,
Al,
Good point. In fact, we recommend that any social networking site that is prone to these attacks utilize our DDoS service from the get go. Unfortunately, this client was not utilizing the service until after he had been attacked. Had he intialized (subscribed to) the service before the attack, we would have protected the site, distributed the attack over our upstreams, and therefore kept the site up. You can read more about the client’s response in other posts on this blog and under “clients testimonials”. Thanks for your comments!