Level 3 has done a decent job offering network based security for the last several years. At one time, they resold Prolexic DDoS Mitigation Services to its large customer base. However, with Akamai acquiring Prolexic, that relationship is certain to
On the Azure CDN section of the website, there is one sentence that stands out, and it goes something like this “Azure CDN is built on a highly-scalable, reverse-proxy architecture with sophisticated DDoS identification and mitigation technologies to protect you”.
Azure CDN Enters the DDoS Mitigation Services Market Watch out Akamai, Microsoft has quietly rolled out their DDoS Mitigation Services Platform for Azure CDN. We all know Microsoft does a fantastic job fighting cyber crime, but this move goes to
December marks the one year anniversary in which Prolexic and EdgeCast were acquired. Akamai paid $370M for Prolexic, and Verizon paid $350M for EdgeCast. Both were sound acquisitions, which expanded the feature sets of Akamai and Verizon, and plugged a
Ancestry.com, the global leader in family online history, and genealogy with 2+ million members was knocked offline for two days, starting on Monday. The company spokeswoman Heather Erickson said that bogus traffic flooded their servers, and their servers couldn’t keep
What does Feedly, Evernote, Meetup, Aweber, PlentyofFish, StatCounter, WPEngine, and Krebsonsecurity have in common? They’ve all experienced volumetric DDoS attacks, and most have been knocked off line. PlentyofFish was disrupted by an 80Gbps DDoS attack, and Meetup was knocked off
Neustar UltraDNS recently experienced a major DDoS attack. Fortunately, UltraDNS stated it mitigated the attack, and that only a certain segment of their name servers experienced network saturation. However, unfortunately, the customers using that specific segment included Amazon.com, Salesforce.com, advertising.com
There is a thriving market place for DDoS-for-hire services. Some characters are even offering free trial accounts, and refunds if not satisfied with the bot rental services. CDNs must prepare for the new cyber war frontier involving DDoS attacks. CloudFlare
The first quarter of 2014 is over and we have the latest updates from Netcraft and Prolexic. In April 2014, there were 958M websites, almost crossing the one billion mark. Next, Prolexic published its 36 page DDoS Report for Q1
Bizety’s infrastructure providers are currently experiencing a DDoS attack. A couple of months back, Bizety experienced its first DDoS attack when StatCounter and Aweber, two vendors we use for plugin functionality, got hit in a massive DDoS attack in a
The lifecycle for CDN features are short lived. A new feature might be key differentiator, that helps in winning business against the competition, but it only last for a while. The CDN feature lifecycle is 2 years max. CDNs must
Akamai’s acquisition of Prolexic was genius. Prolexic is one of the leading cloud-based security companies offering DDOS protection. Their infrastructure consist of the following: global POPs, Tier 1 connectivity with multiple carriers, massive hardware deployment, custom applications for monitoring, alerting
Akamai’s recent acquisition of Prolexic is right on the money. It’s a great buy that extends their existing security portfolio by a magnitude of 3x. Prolexic is a heavy hitter in the DDOS protection space and miles ahead of the
