Distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) is an attack on network infrastructure and services causing temporary malfunction or outright shut down of targeted systems. In the Internet environment DDOS is one of the most serious and popular threats to any existing online business. Relative low cost of the ddos attack and wide availability of attack methods might significantly increase risk to your IT infrastructure, including websites, mail servers and overall network. Cloudcom offers a complex ddos protection solution designed to eliminate the effect of any type of DDOS attack, hence resolve the problem of availability and stability of your business activity. Our specialists have developed advanced ddos protection tools based on scalable cluster technology to recognize malicious web traffic and instantly defend your servers from all types of ddos attacks.

How does the DDoS protection work

How does the DDoS protection work?

To defend any type of web infrastructure from a DDOS attack you do not need to physically move or purchase additionally new expensive equipment. The procedure to enable the security solution is straightforward and includes several simple steps. The whole procedure takes just a few moments to enable and makes your web server protected from 99% of all ddos attacks.

Risks to unprotected infrastructure

Infected computers, while being remotely controlled by attacker, overflow the target network (victim) with data, decreasing network or server productivity essentially to zero. At the moment, the intensity of DDoS attacks has reached record highs and the amount of bot nets that generate such attacks is beyond comprehension.If security of your web site is an integral part of your company performance and safety and privacy is the key features of your online business, reliable defense against all types of ddos attacks is your top priority choice. Hacking attacks directed at web sites is one of the most widely spread means to eliminate competition and steal valuable/private data. Virtually every organization today relies on its web infrastructure security for a number of important functions. As a result, web server security is probably the key issue the majority of companies currently facing, particularly the ones that extract most of the profits via online sales. A particular concern is the risk of complete infrastructure failure in case of a powerful ddos attack on the client server. In such cases ISP frequently blocks access to the clients database and website until a gigantic bill caused by excessive bandwidth usage resulting from the attack is paid. In rare, but possible scenario, a powerful attack directed at victim's web service will result in general ISP network malfunctioning, causing ISP to immediately terminate victim's service without further access to the server. Taking into the account that 99% of attacks come unexpected to the victim, reputation losses during first 24 hours of IT infrastructure is not the only problem. Other problems are: search and installation of an appropriate DDoS protection service may take several days which leads to major financial losses.

We strongly advise all clients to keep their servers with ddos protected hosting platform and have their business stability insured by Cloudcom ddos protection services.