Hackers’ glory days come to an end

MANILA, May 8 (PNA) -- Have you ever been attacked by hackers? Or have you heard of high profile websites in the Philippines recently attacked by hackers such as the case of the University of the Philippines?


Hackers may seem to be spreading like a disease but, luckily, a cure has already been formulated to fight them before they totally consume the cyberspace.


Such cure has been formulated by the IP Converge Data Center, Inc. (PSE: ‘CLOUD’), the country’s first and only publicly-listed Internet data center and cloud services provider.


IP-Converge offers the world’s most advanced cloud-based Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation services through its partnership with US-based Prolexic Technologies, the world’s pioneer and leading solutions specialist for the mitigation of DDoS attacks.


DDoS attacks are probably the most expensive of all cyber crimes. They are same ones recently used against gov.ph websites purportedly by a group of Chinese hackers in relation to the two countries’ current Scarborough Shoal standoff.


DDoS is able to cripple a network for a period of time by using multiple computers that have been infected to send out bogus traffic to a specified target.


This bogus traffic floods networks causing them to go offline – resulting in lost revenues and harmed reputation.


”With the right people to support you, the worst DDoS attacks on your network or websites can be mitigated easily, allowing you to focus on your business.


No need to be a hapless victim to cyber criminals,” Percival C. de los Reyes, IP-Converge SVP for Managed Data Services, said.


Prolexic created the cloud DDoS mitigation space nine years ago. IP-Converge started providing Prolexic’s DDoS mitigation services in 2007; it has remained to be the only company in the country offering this kind of service.


“It is typical for government websites all over the world to experience DDoS attacks. As proven in the past, Prolexic can handle the most damaging attacks that government institutions can ever encounter,” de los Reyes said.


Prolexic has unparalleled experience fighting DDoS attacks against companies especially in the gaming and banking verticals.


According to Prolexic, companies in these industries are most susceptible to hacking attempts. Currently, more than 10 of the world's largest banking organizations rely on Prolexic to fight complex DDoS attacks.


Moreover, because it services a large number of banking clients, Prolexic is most often the first to become aware of the types of attacks being used in campaigns against companies in this sector.


Prolexic's Security Engineering and Response Team (SERT) is also constantly researching threats against the banking sector.


During its seminar on DDoS mitigation aptly entitled “Banking on Prolexic” held at Makati Shangri-la Hotel, IP-Converge and Prolexic discussed the dangers of DDoS attacks and how it has become more rampant in Asia over the past years.


Oliver Kwan, Prolexic vice president for sales – Asia, further equipped IT decision makers in attendance with knowledge on how to address the worst threats on online security especially in the banking and government sectors.


Notably, Prolexic offers the most sophisticated Time-to-Mitigate service-level agreement (SLA) of any company offering DDoS mitigation services.


Among other things, this means that Prolexic does not stop fighting attacks until they end.


Contrast this to other companies that offer DDoS mitigation services only as a part of existing business lines like domain name systems (DNS), content delivery networks (CDN) or IP transit services, and as such offer SLAs that have clauses that limit the extent they can and will fight attacks.


“With IP-Converge’s global network infrastructure and market reach, combined with Prolexic’s unique technology, our customers from government and across verticals can have peace of mind knowing that what they have is a secure hosting environment,”de los Reyes said. (PNA)
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