Foreshore has announced its deployment of Arbor Networks Peakflow SP solution to significantly strengthen its defences against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Arbor Networks is a leading provider of secure service control solutions, counting 70% of the world’s ISPs among its clients.
Foreshore offers DDoS protection as a service to its customers, alongside its other internet services such as hosting and online data backup. DDoS attacks are increasing in size and frequency worldwide and are a massive threat to companies who stand to lose a great deal by having their website rendered unavailable through such an attack.
Since its inception in 2000, Foreshore’s non-stop network infrastructure has been meeting the rigorous 24 x 365 operational requirements of international banks, major online retailers and electronic payment providers. DDoS detection and mitigation are therefore critical to Foreshore’s continued success – and that of its customers.
Foreshore is combating these threats on numerous fronts. While the company continues to make use of its existing DDoS protection tools at surface level, Arbor Networks’ Peakflow SP system enables advanced network-wide anomaly detection and protection on a deeper level, thereby substantially enhancing Foreshore DDoS protection offering.
Peakflow SP delivers the pervasive network visibility, deep application insight and comprehensive threat management Foreshore needs to surgically mitigate and report on DDoS and zero-day threats before they impact critical business services. Foreshore is also using Peakflow SP for traffic engineering to improve network performance.
Andrew Jarrett, Foreshore’s sales and marketing director, comments, "The security, visibility and policy aspects of Peakflow SP provide a cutting edge all-in-one solution to our DDoS requirements, in turn ensuring that our clients are afforded the highest level of DDoS protection available globally."
"By providing intelligent visibility into our network traffic, Peakflow SP gives us three major benefits," explained Derek Fage, technical director at Foreshore. "First, the system instantly alerts us to anomalous network activity so we can address security threats and maintain the highest quality of service. Second, it provides detailed information about suspect and attack traffic so we can conduct meaningful forensics. And third, by providing insight into where traffic is coming from, it enables more accurate traffic engineering, network planning and peering analysis – all of which helps reduce our costs and optimise our services."
"Peakflow SP is a platform that delivers a number of benefits beyond network security. Foreshore is leveraging the broad functionality of Peakflow SP to improve network-wide visibility, security, traffic engineering and to potentially deliver managed DDoS protection services to its customers." said Paul Morville, Arbor Networks vice president of product management.