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Prolexic Routed from Akamai

Fastest DDoS Mitigation of Terabit Scale Attacks

Value Proposition

Problem

Organizations increasingly interact with customers, employees, and partners through a myriad of web and IP-based applications. Disruptions to these applications can have a serious impact on the bottom line, making them attractive targets for attackers. Whether planning for the inevitable or actively mitigating an attack, organizations need fast, simple, and effective protection from the broadest range of DDoS attacks in order to defend their online presence, maintain employee productivity, and safeguard their infrastructure

Solution

Prolexic Routed provides organizations with a simple and effective way to protect all web- and IP-based applications in their data center from the threat of DDoS attacks. Offered as a flexible and comprehensive service, Prolexic Routed stops DDoS attacks in the cloud, well before they reach the data center. It provides comprehensive protection against the broadest range of DDoS attack types and defends against today’s highbandwidth, sustained web attacks, as well as the increasing threat of potentially crippling DDoS attacks that target specific applications and services.

Features

Prolexic Routed provides organizations with dynamic protection against a broad range of potential DDoS attack types, regardless of complexity, and even as they change over the course of an attack. This includes both network-layer DDoS attacks, such as UDP and SYN floods, as well as application-layer DDoS attacks, such as HTTP GET and POST floods
By routing network traffic through Prolexic Routed, organizations can protect entire IP subnets, including all web- and IP-based applications within those subnets, any supporting network and data center infrastructure. and the network bandwidth into their data center
Zero-second mitigation — proactive mitigation controls tailored to your network traffic can mitigate the majority of DDoS attacks instantly in zero seconds.
Akamai’s Prolexic network includes 19 globally distributed scrubbing centers with 8.0 Tbps of dedicated network bandwidth today. Scrubbing centers are located in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Ashburn (USA), Chicago (USA), Dallas (USA), Frankfurt (Germany), Hong Kong (China), London (UK), Los Angeles (USA), Melbourne (Australia), Miami (USA), New York (USA), Osaka (Japan), Paris (France), San Jose (USA), Singapore (Singapore), Stockholm (Sweden), Sydney (Australia), Tokyo (Japan), and Vienna (Austria).
DDoS attack support — Prolexic Routed is a fully managed security service to help organizations respond to the threat of DDoS attacks. Akamai personnel perform real-time analysis of ongoing attacks and adapt to changing attack vectors and multi-dimensional threats.

24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) — Akamai’s 24/7 SOC provides global coverage for organizations around the world, with over 150 SOC staff operating across five SOC locations. In addition to detecting and mitigating developing attacks, Akamai SOC staff communicates and coordinates with organizations’ onsite staff and troubleshoots any abnormalities.
With trained security experts highly experienced at mitigating a broad range of DDoS attacks, Prolexic Routed reduces the business risk and financial cost through its industry-leading time-to-mitigate and consistency-of mitigation SLAs
Prolexic Routed is offered both as an Always On service, which offers the fastest detection and mitigation capabilities, or optionally as an On Demand service, to provide organizations with flexibility in how they customize and apply DDoS mitigation
Routed Dashboard — This is a dashboard providing real-time visibility into network traffic even as DDoS attacks are unfolding, with hundreds of metrics to help organizations understand the makeup of any DDoS attack
DDoS monitoring (optional) — Network-based traffic monitoring services provide early warning of potential attacks, allowing the SOC staff to respond to DDoS attacks in even less time.