Cloud signaling technology enables network service providers to prevent DDoS attacks

December 11, 2012 Arbor NX announced that the Canadian communications provider Allstream Company will join Arbor's Cloud Signalling Alliance (CSC). Preventing Distributed Denial of service (DDoS) attacks and mitigating their threats requires the cooperation of all stakeholders. CSC is an innovative collaboration between service providers, data center operators, and enterprises designed to ensure the availability of their network infrastructure and shorten the mitigation time of DDoS attacks.

Joining CSC will enable Allstream to extend services and provide customers with more proactive ways to intercept harmful traffic without impeding legitimate traffic. Allstream's managed IP solutions and services help customers simplify IT operations, increasing productivity, maximizing network performance, and managing costs. Through these tools and services, IT professionals can address increasingly complex challenges, including massive data and storage requirements, cybercrime, business continuity, mobile labor, and cloud computing.

"We are working to help IT professionals meet rapidly changing technology requirements while maintaining the highest level of network performance." "said Jim Demerlis, vice president of Allstream Marketing. The increasingly complex DDoS attacks, the strengthening of network security is imperative. We joined Arbor's Cloud signalling alliance as another proof of Allstream's commitment to customer network security. ”

Allstream just released a series of educational videos: DDoS attacks to understand the impact on the business and mitigation methods. These videos explore the phenomenon of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, what it is, how it evolves, and who is behind it.

"Mitigating DDoS threats should be part of any company's risk planning and business continuity strategy." "Arbor NX President Colin Doherty said. "Allstream recognizes that being a member of the Alliance is the best way to protect your customer network. Allstream apparently took the initiative to reduce the risks inherent in cyber attacks and to enable their customers to operate more efficiently and safely. ”

Global leader in mitigating DDoS

Arbor NX's 450 customers include most of the world's service providers and many of the largest corporate networks currently in use. According to a recent report by Infonetics study, "Market outlook for DDoS defenses", Arbor NX is ranked as the top provider of DDoS defense solutions in the overall market as well as in the telecommunications, corporate and mobile market segments.

Arbor products benefit from Atlas Intelligent feedback, are able to look for new threats, and automatically provide threat update information to customers. This insight is critical to security because botnets are constantly changing, hindering detection. Arbor's Atlas infrastructure combines dark network sensor networks with communications data from more than 200 service provider customers worldwide. This dataset gives Arbor a unique global perspective and discovers the amount of malicious traffic traversing the Internet.

Cloud signaling technology in action

When an enterprise or data center operator discovers a DDoS attack that suffers from a jamming service, it can choose to mitigate the attack in the cloud via the cloud signaling system, that is, click the Pull-down menu to alert the service provider. This proactive approach enables it to control the situation and maintain the expertise to command events. Capacity DDoS attacks that block upstream links will be reduced immediately or completely disappear from the access links in the data center, and service availability is protected. The Join Cloud Signaling Alliance enables service providers to provide differentiated security management services, reduce mitigation time, and increase the effectiveness of response to DDoS threats, enabling customers to save significant operating costs and help maintain a reputation. Enterprise and managed Services customers also benefit from real-time monitoring of attack mitigation and subsequent reporting (detailing the attack and the service provider's mitigation actions), thus helping to establish best practices.

Cloud signaling function: Automated way to prevent DDoS attacks faster

The core of the cloud signalling function is the Peakflow SP and Pravail Availability Protection System (APS) solution for Arbor NX. The Peakflow SP is powered by many of the world's leading cloud-based DDoS security management Services, while the Pravail APS is an internal device that enables the enterprise perimeter to defend against usability threats, especially in the defense of application layer DDoS attacks.

Cloud signaling is an efficient way of integrating enterprise data Center and service provider Cloud connections. The cloud signalling feature enables internal pravail APS devices to be connected to cloud-based Peakflow SP Solutions. Arbor believes that the best way for businesses, data centers, and cloud operators to defend against DDoS attacks is the combination of internal and cloud protection.