DDoS protection for online gaming

Even a few hours offline due to a DoS or DDoS denial of service attack can result in millions of dollars of revenue losses for an online gaming business. With millions of low-value transactions occurring each hour, the online gaming industry has, historically, been susceptible to cyber-attacks and specifically to DDoS denial of service attacks.

In 2003, Prolexic was founded to address the needs of this industry and has designs its DDoS protection service offerings and technologies to ensure 100 percent online availability.

Generally, the technical staffs of these businesses will complement the Prolexic DDoS protection service by working with their ISPs or web-hosting companies, increasing bandwidth, and/or installing on-premise DDoS mitigation hardware. However, Prolexic’s DDoS mitigation expertise and investment in bandwidth, anti-DDoS appliances, and technologies dedicated to DDoS mitigation ensures that these denial of service attacks will be stopped in minutes – or even seconds – and that the attackers will not reach their goal of disrupting these real-time online businesses. As such, Prolexic’s DDoS protection for a gaming site often pays for itself within a few hours.

Why online gaming companies choose Prolexic for DDoS protection

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

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

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

DDoS mitigation case studies for online gaming

• Betstar Bets: It only took one outage for Betstar to decide not to gamble on DDoS protection. Prolexic now ensures uptime and revenues for popular online betting site with PLXproxy. Register to download the full report.

• Online Gaming Provider: Prolexic mitigates 9 Gbps DDoS attacks against Singapore-based online gaming provider with no interruption to service for its 500,000 concurrent users. Register to download the full report.

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