In today’s always-on, Internet-first world, DDoS attacks are increasing in sophistication and are happening much more frequently than ever before. Organizations are continuously at risk of being impacted. As DDoS becomes more of a threat, businesses must evaluate their existing cybersecurity methods to ensure that they are properly protected. At Corero, our goal is to help customers implement the best protection so they can spend their time focusing on critical business needs, instead of worrying about being hit with a DDoS attack.
Corero customer, A2 Hosting, tried DDoS protection offerings from a number of security vendors before investing in SmartWall. None of those previous solutions were as easy-to-install, easy-to-use, or effective at blocking the DDoS packets, while allowing legitimate traffic to continue uninterrupted. Even the automated systems that were supposed to flip the bad traffic to a cloud scrubbing service frequently failed, often requiring manual intervention.
Guidance from industry analysts, is that a hybrid approach is the most cost-effective way to deliver the comprehensive DDoS protection that many organizations now need, to assure their business continuity. A2 Hosting chose Corero Cloud Hybrid DDoS protection for exactly this reason, to ensure that attacks of all sizes can be locally mitigated instantly, with any in danger of saturating incoming links quickly, and automatically, redirected via a multi-terabit cloud scrubbing service. The cloud scrubbing, when activated, returns cleaned traffic to A2 Hosting’s locations via the on-premises SmartWall solution for final inspection, ensuring only legitimate traffic, free from DDoS packets, is allowed onto the network.
One of the most valued benefits of SmartWall, is the significant decrease in the number of incidents A2 Hosting now must handle. “We’ve gone from being constantly distracted by DDoS attacks, to only occasionally having to intervene,” Bryan Muthig, founder and CEO of A2 Hosting says. “Prior to the Corero solution, our technical people were constantly dealing with DDoS; they were focused too much on fixing outages,” he says. Now they are free to focus on project work and pursue more productive, innovative tasks. This benefit extends to A2 Hosting’s customers as well, because it enables them to focus on their core business, instead of worrying about DDoS attacks
Investing in the proper protection now, will prevent your business from facing the negative impacts of DDoS attacks in the future. Corero’s SmartWall solution effortlessly integrates with existing networking and security technology and provides forensic-level analysis and reporting before, during, and after attacks.