DDoS, the Distributed Denial of Service attack, remains one of the biggest security fears for any business operating in the cloud, and if the business is like CDNetworks – one that operates and survives entirely in the cloud – that fear has to loom large at all times.
CDNetworks is, of course, one of the big global players in the business of large scale content distribution. If you have ever downloaded or streamed a video the chances are good that it has come via them. As it has customers that includes national Governments, major gaming sites and global retailers, interrupting that type of services because of the DDoS is simply not good for either the company’s or its customers’ business.
The company has had a defence against such attacks since 2008, called Cloud Security. But till now it has only been available for the Korean, Japanese and Chinese markets which are said to be amongst the most attack-prone in the world.
Now it is rolling out Cloud Security to the rest of its global network, which incorporates 140 Points of Presence. It is able to absorb massive amounts of attack traffic for customers located anywhere. Malicious traffic is filtered and quarantined while legitimate traffic continues to flow to customer websites, reducing any impact on end-users and revenue.
Jongchan Kim, SVP of Technology, CDNetworks,observed, “Our massively distributed architecture, including PoPs specifically designated for absorbing attacks, protects our Cloud Security service customers from malicious attacks, ensuring their websites are available and reliable for end-users.”
According to a report, `Develop A Two-Phased DDoS Mitigation Strategy’, written by John Kindervag, a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, `Bank of America, MasterCard, PayPal, Sony, Visa, and many more of the world's largest companies have all been victims of DDoS attacks. These unpredictable attacks continue to increase and grow in sophistication by the day. The availability of an organization's critical systems depends on its ability to adapt and scale across its online infrastructure and protect it from these types of incidents’.
