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May 30, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Riverhead Networks (Riverhead.com), a provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection solutions, and managed hosting and IT outsourcing firm Cervalis (Cervalis.com) said today they had teamed up to demonstrate the successful mitigation of a DDoS attack in a secured hosting environment. The companies said the test demonstration was the first of its kind.
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The trial environment was built using Cervalis’ network armed with Riverhead Guard, which offers active protection against DDoS attacks. Ten different DDoS attacks were launched against a target server and routers while measuring the service level to legitimate end users of the attacked sites. The companies said the test results proved that sites located within the DDoS-protected environment experienced uninterrupted flow of legitimate traffic, even at the peak of the attacks.
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“Riverhead has convinced us with unquestionable proof that real-time protection from DDoS attacks is feasible,” said Eddie Rabinovitch, Vice President of Global Networks and Infrastructure Operations at Cervalis. “We plan to offer this unique service to our customers.”
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DDoS attacks crash systems by flooding servers or networks with useless traffic, preventing legitimate from gaining access to those resources.
