Web hosting provider, Planeetta Internet Oy, has chosen distributed denial of service (DDoS) Firewall security appliance firm's IG200 DDoS Firewall solution, to protect its over 5000 clients.
After evaluating their current signature based Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and evaluating several other IPS solutions available on the market, Planeetta chosed the IG200 to protect its client maintained servers and network operation center (NOC) from a growing threat of DDoS attacks, protocol anomaly based hacking, scans and other zero-day exploits.
Such network floods were occurring on a monthly basis and with only a narrow based DDoS attack on just one customer; connectivity to other accounts was vulnerable. The existing IPS device was overtaken with flood traffic and failed. Prior to the IntruGuard deployment, Planeetta took a painstaking effort with their Internet Service Provider to determine all sources of attack and instituted ACLs to block the assault. This method took many hours to bring the attack under control.
Lauri Pitkanen, Chief Security Officer and Co-founder at Planeetta explained, ''Compared to other solutions available on the market, the IG200 was the obvious choice because of its instant automated reaction, full duplex Fast Ethernet throughput, software upgrade capability to gigabit throughput, and ease of administration and monitoring.
Planeetta Internet Oy is a provider of web hosting services in Europe, serving over 5000 customers with an excess of 50 servers in its data center. Scrupulous security services include defense against worms, viruses, spyware, and other malicious attacks to protect their operations. Services include web site and email support. The company is located in Helsinki, Finland.
IntruGuard's task is to defend high-value Internet services and network communications by delivering built-for-purpose systems for Intrusion and Day Zero DoS and DDoS Attack Prevention. The company serves e-commerce, web hosting/ISP, financial institutions, and managed service providers that are under pressure to deliver guaranteed network and application performance under all conditions.
To learn more about IntruGuard, please visit: www.intruguarddevices.com.
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