Coolhousing Boosts Security - Protects against DoS Attacks

Prague September 10th (PROTEXT) - Coolhousing introduces its Anti-DDoS service, which will protect customers' servers from the impacts of Denial of Service type of attacks. The service offers advanced methods of proactive monitoring and behavioural analysis.

Denial of Service (DoS attacks) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS attacks) are two of today's most serious threats. It is relatively simple and inexpensive to organize them, while efficient protection is technically complicated and usually also costly. (D)DoS attacks can target virtually anyone; their severity and frequency are constantly growing.

That said, the Internet is a very important and inseparable part of everyday life. Email means communication, web presentations provide sales, and stored files are information. All these elements provide both business contacts and entertainment. Yet, (D)DoS attacks are relatively simply able to shut down your servers for weeks.

Protection against (D)DoS attacks is not easy, because the attack needs to be distinguished from normal traffic, and moreover, attackers use a number of techniques that render effective protection difficult. Coolhousing fights this type of threat at several levels at once.

The first of them is membership in the secure FENIX network, which uses the domestic peering node NIX.CZ to connect several major trustworthy operators that conform to strict operating and their own network protection standards. The purpose of FENIX is to maintain operation of at least part of the Czech Internet in the event of multiple massive DDoS attacks on key infrastructure, such as those you will recall from the spring of 2013.

As the second level of protection, Coolhousing has deployed RadWare DefensePro network components, which establish a so-called grey zone in the data centre, i.e., a safe perimeter inside which attackers cannot see and thus do not know what awaits them on the imaginary other side. RadWare DefensePro performs behavioural analysis of traffic, and is able to recognise in the data stream a commencing attack or automatically spreading malware, for example.

Joining the FENIX network and protection by means of the grey zone is available automatically and free of charge for all Coolhousing customers. We offer behavioural traffic analysis, including active protection against the most common attacks, starting at a mere CZK 500 a month. Additional services, such as protection against DNS Flood or SYN Flood attacks, or even protection against connection jamming (so-called Connection Limit), can be arranged based on individual request.

For more information on Coolhousing's Anti-DDoS service, please visit https://www.coolhousing.net/cz/anti-ddos

For further information, please contact:

Jiří Dvořák, Senior Sales Manager

e-mail: jiri.dvorak@coolhousing.net

tel.: +420 775 310 929