DDoS protection for media and telecom

Our society depends on telecommunications companies to provide on-demand, 24/7 access to web sites, programming and applications – wherever we are in the world. This dynamic, highly competitive media and telecommunications industry encompasses wire line and wireless carriers, Internet service providers, cloud service providers, cable operators, and content creators, such as broadcasting, publishing and entertainment organizations. However, one problem unites this diverse crowd: susceptibility to denial of service DoS and DDoS attacks.

With such a high profile, many firms are on the radar of DDoS hackers. Some denial of service attacks are politically driven to make a point. Some are financially driven to impact the bottom line. Either way, the impact is very real.

Whenever the ability to access content or communicate is taken away, disgruntled businesses and consumers will look elsewhere for services and the damage of denial of service attacks to brand reputation can be severe, especially if outages are on-going. That’s why media companies and communications providers – including those that offer email, DNS services, Internet- and cloud-based services – need strong DoS and DDoS defenses in place for network and application protection .

While many telecom firms have DDoS mitigation capabilities in-house, those capabilities only go so far. To be truly protected against DoS and DDoS attacks targeted at the network, transport and application layers, a specialist “pure play” provider with significant DDoS attack protection expertise is a better choice, leaving you free to concentrate your resources on your core business.

Why media/telecom firms choose Prolexic

• Prolexic customers remain online before, during, and after DDoS attacks.

• On-demand DDoS mitigation services have a minimal effect on customer traffic.

• Remote DDoS detection and monitoring services (optional) enable Prolexic to detect potential DDoS attacks before they have any effect on your clean traffic.

DDoS mitigation case studies for media and telecom providers

• Clickpoint!: For Clickpoint! customers, reliability and accessibility to services is critical. See how Clickpoint! defeated a Layer 4 SYN Flood attack campaigns with Prolexic’s DDoS defense. Register to download the full report.

• SEEK: Millions of job seekers rely on seek.com.au, Australia’s number one job search website. After a Layer 7 DDoS attack took the site down, they turned to Prolexic to help ensure 100 percent uptime. Register to download the full report.

• Spanish Media: Attack on Spanish-Language News site is abandoned when traffic routes to Prolexic. Register to download the full report.

• Krebs on Security: Prolexic fends off Pandora DNS amplification attacks for popular cyber security blog. Regiser to download the full report.

• Blogging Site: Prolexic defends blogging Web site against six-month DDoS attack campaign. Register to download the full report.

• VirtualRoad: Prolexic mitigates politically motivated Layer 7 attacks against web hosting company’s clients. Register to download the full report.

• RealVision: When hackers see this on-line media site’s IP addresses change to Prolexic they abandon DDoS attack. Register to download the full report.

• Yola: Prolexic mitigates Layer 4 UDP Flood against this web site hosting and building company, and now protects 6 million web sites against DDoS attacks. Register to download this report.

• Content Rating Agency: A 9 million packets per second DDoS attack brings down web site before Prolexic steps in. Register to download the full report.

Read how we protect leading businesses from DDoS attacks in more DDoS mitigation case studies in the Prolexic Knowledge Center.