Allstream's new security service targets cybercrime

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....