TORONTO – Business communications provider Allstream announced a special offer today of its Allstream Secure Internet service to help protect its business customers from a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Allstream has partnered with Arbor Networks, a network security solutions provider, to offer the service. A typical DDoS attack involves saturating the target website server with such a high volume of requests that it cannot respond to legitimate traffic, or responds so slowly as to be rendered essentially unavailable. With the new service DDoS attacks are identified, quarantined and scrubbed before they reach a customer’s network, without affecting legitimate Internet traffic.
“Every day businesses lose thousands of dollars for each hour they are impacted by DDoS attacks, and traditional perimeter security solutions such as firewalls will not provide sufficient protection,” said Colin Doherty, president, Arbor Networks, a provider of network security solutions, in a release.
“We want to make it easy for Canadian businesses to defend themselves against the increasing threat of DDoS attacks,” said Allstream’s vice-president of customer operations Ron Rout. “By providing this service through the cloud Allstream is able to offer it to a broad array of customers, from very large enterprises to smaller businesses, who will now be able to protect themselves against DDoS attacks."
Arbor Networks and Allstream are part of the Cloud Signaling Coalition (CSC), a group of providers, data centre operators and enterprises set up to prevent DDoS attacks or mitigate its threat.
