(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — India-based global IT giant Tata Communications (www.tatacommunications.com) will be providing built-in Distributed Denial of Service detection and mitigation services as part of its North American Dedicated Internet Access services.
Using technology from DDoS mitigation solutions provider Arbor Networks (www.arbornetworks.com), Tata’s new Internet Clean Pipe service protects enterprises from DDoS attacks using its global network and managed security services, according to its Thursday announcement. According to Arbor Networks, the Internet Clean Pipe service uses the world’s largest DDoS scrubbing architecture, consisting of 1.5Tbps capacity meshed with 10G backbones, which is able to absorb the enormous traffic generated by botnets, buying time to activate countermeasures.
“Tata Communications’ Internet Clean Pipe service identifies DDoS attacks well before the traffic reaches a customer’s network and mitigates the attack within the huge capacity of Tata Communications’ backbone,” Tata Communications global managed services senior vice president John Landau said in a statement. “For customers, the service provides an effective and very affordable single-supplier combination of Internet connectivity with protection against the DDoS attacks that could otherwise seriously damage their Internet dependent business.”
DDoS attacks pose a huge risk to a company’s Internet connectivity and their prevention can save companies millions of dollars a year, especially for companies that depend on the Internet as a business platform and for those who the Internet is an element of their core IT infrastructure. At the beginning of July, some US and South Korean government web sites succumbed to DDoS attacks, which saw them sustain considerable reputation damage. More recently, several popular social media platforms were the target of successful DDoS attacks.
Tata’s Internet Clean Pipe service leverages reliable network-based defense, while simultaneously optimizing bandwidth utilization. It scrutinizes network traffic in real-time to identify anomalies and quarantine attack packets and block malicious traffic. It also makes use of sophisticated detection techniques including built-in attack profiles, and statistical and behavioral analysis methods to quickly identify attacks in the cloud before they can hit the customer network.
