DDoS Attack Protection - Denial of Service Protection Solution

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Organizations increasingly rely on the Internet to conduct business to drive their strategies faster than ever, at a time when the global reach of business transactions represents new opportunities for all organizations. E-Commerce Web sites, partner collaboration portals, and Intranet applications enhance business opportunities that help organizations maintain real-time connectivity to their customers, partners, and remote users. At the same time, the ubiquitous nature of the Internet also creates new opportunities for cyber crime activities to disrupt business activities with sophisticated, brute force Denial of Service DoS or Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks.

Today, an attacker with even limited skills can assemble a botnet army of tens of thousands of compromised machines. More recently, there has been an increasing trend for attackers to profit from these DDoS attacks. There are the well publicized activities of Eastern European crime groups intent on generating significant profits using new technologies to conduct good old fashioned extortion, often with a high degree of success. As proof of these disturbing trends, the 2004 FBI/CSI survey concluded that DDoS attacks were the number one cause for financial losses resulting from cyber crime from the organizations they surveyed.

The moment you install any Internet-facing mission critical assets, you are susceptible to debilitating DDoS attacks. The motives behind the attacks can be varied, from extortion, to political statements, to bragging rights. Virtually any organization that connects to the Internet is highly susceptible to these attacks.

The business impact of DDoS attacks can be far reaching. Overall network performance can be compromised leading to customer dissatisfaction and lost productivity from employees. Even worse, a complete loss of Internet connectivity resulting from a large sustained attack can lead to lost profits and inefficiencies for remote employees who cannot gain access to their corporate networks.

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