ISPs, Hosting and Colocation Providers are increasingly unwitting accomplices to DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks that transit or impact their network. Providers and their customers are inseparably linked by the increasing challenges DDoS attacks present. To avoid damage to reputation and brand, end-user customers are increasingly looking for protection that is a match for the evolving DDoS threat. This is an excellent opportunity for providers to generate new value-add service revenues.
Providers are increasingly seeking new ways to differentiate their commodity offerings by adding valuable services. And, Corero is helping by making it really simple for them to offer industry leading DDoS protection as-a-Service to their downstream customers. Corero SmartProtect is designed for providers to deliver best of breed, cutting edge, DDoS protection as a value-add service. It minimizes the time-to-value, enabling providers with a playbook that covers the end-to-end process, including service offering guidance and end-user DDoS marketing materials.
SmartProtect is powered by Corero’s award-winning SmartWall solution, which delivers real-time, automatic, protection from DDoS attacks in under a second, not the minutes or tens-of-minutes users experience with traditional DDoS solutions. Supporting multiple deployment topologies, SmartWall utilizes an always-on DDoS mitigation architecture to automatically, and surgically, remove just the DDoS attack packets, leaving good traffic unimpeded – without manual operator intervention.
Recent enhancements are making it easier than ever for providers to offer such a service. Some of the new capabilities include Enhanced Traffic Control with fine-grained policies that enable flexible service-level enforcement, with both local protection and remote mitigation signaling. All with the flexibility to ensure attacks against unsubscribed customers aren’t impacting those paying for protection.
In addition to the fast automatic protection delivered, the SmartWall Service Portal enables providers to rapidly onboard tenant customers, define and assign DDoS protection service levels and view attack dashboards for each. Protected customers can also login to their own portal view, for DDoS attack reporting and analytics, and to gain an understanding of the protection value they are receiving.
SmartProtect includes flexible options for providers to purchase real-time DDoS mitigation technology from Corero, to better meet their buying process and effectively lowering the barrier to entry for automated DDoS mitigation. This includes regular upfront Capex investments, or monthly Opex subscription-based terms.
Our “How To” guide is designed to help providers maximize the value of their DDoS protection and uncover what strategy best suits their needs. Download it now!
For over a decade, Corero has been providing state-of-the-art, highly-effective, real-time automatic DDoS protection solutions for enterprise, hosting and service provider customers around the world. Our SmartWall® DDoS mitigation solutions protect on-premise, cloud, virtual and hybrid environments. For more on Corero’s diverse deployment models, click here. If you’d like to learn more, please contact us.