| The DDOS Overview |
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The frequency of cyber-attacks and the impact of malicious software reached epidemic proportions in 2009. This trend is continuing to accelerate into 2010 as millions of computers are compromised every month by sophisticated attackers. These infected PCs are collected and controlled in the form of “Botnets,” and can be used to launch coordinated Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS) and other cyber-attacks. Today’s cyber-criminals perpetually create new attack variants to support increasingly complexity in attack vectors. The DDoS problem should be of major concern to any company which relies on an Internet presence for its business or for its reputation. Prolexic Technologies works with hundreds of businesses and has been at the forefront of mitigating all varieties and sizes of DDoS and related network attacks since 2003. Prolexic currently detects, fights, and mitigates thousands of DDoS attacks each year, and continually observes new, crafted and specialized DDoS attacks. These attacks look and act more like normal user traffic than ever before, so Prolexic develops counter-measures to combat them. These tools are unique to Prolexic, and combine human-guided mitigation and proprietary technologies with the best commercially available equipment. Prolexic is capable of dealing with all of today’s DDoS threats, addressing the needs of Prolexic’s customers, and will continue to lead and develop innovative new methods to successfully mitigate today’s and tomorrow’s attacks.
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