This US-based, regional service provider offers fiber, telephone, and data center services to both businesses and government agencies. The internet service provider (ISP) primarily focuses on the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, with capabilities to service other regions, as well.
ISPs face a rising tide of DDoS attacks, which pose a security and availability issue, and this ISP is no exception. Although they have experienced DDoS attacks in previous years, they began to rethink their approach to addressing these attacks after suffering a
“volumetric” DDoS attack that proved particularly challenging to deal with manually. This attack occurred in the evening and directly impacted customers who work 24 hours a day. Eager to reduce the manpower load from their current manual process and improve uptime and security for customers, the service provider decided to initiate a search for a DDoS protection solution.
The service provider conducted an extensive search of hardware-based solutions before narrowing the field to Corero and one other provider. “Corero’s sales team was far superior to the other vendor’s team and very responsive,” said the customer’s CEO. “After a very thorough analysis that included a strong demo, product material that spoke to me and the challenges unique to ISPs, and one of the better RFPs we’ve ever done, we decided Corero was the solution we would deploy to our customers.”.
