14 DAY TRIAL // Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks protection solutions provider startup Defense.net has come out of stealth mode. The company, founded by Prolexic Technologies founder and DDOS mitigation pioneer Barrett Lyon in December 2012, offers services that protect enterprises against sophisticated attacks.
“A decade ago, small scale DDoS attacks by today's standards shut down off-shore cyber casinos for extortion purposes, but now political hacktivists and foreign government backed 'cyber fighters' such as Izz ad-Din al-Qassam are attacking critical infrastructure of the U.S., including financial institutions, utilities, telcos, Internet hosting facilities, and state government,” said Lyon, who’s also the company’s CTO.
“Although much of this critical infrastructure uses traditional DDoS mitigation solutions, every week brings reports of sites, applications, and services brought down by attacks that are now significantly more sophisticated and 16X larger than just one year ago; clearly the techniques we developed in 2003 don't work for global banks today.”
Defense.net has acquired $9.5 million (€7.1 million) in funding and has an executive team comprising the US’s top DDOS experts.
Before the company came out of stealth mode, Lyon put together a team of DDOS attack mitigation experts who built advanced technologies aimed at protecting organizations against large-scale and sophisticated cybercriminal operations.
The company’s products, which will be announced soon, are designed to defend businesses and organizations that support the US’s critical infrastructures.
“Even when they successfully stop an attack, existing mitigation solutions create significant side effects from blocked users and fraud alerts to slow page loads, broken links, and stalled or timed out video streams,” Lyon noted.
“Some companies have had to ignore their fraud alerts when DDoS mitigation was turned on because so many of the alerts were artifacts of the mitigation,” he added.
“It's analogous to the fire department responding to a fire -- they can extinguish the fire, but in the process they get water all over the place and do some damage on their own. The Defense.net solution will both protect against modern DDoS attacks and preserve the performance of applications and the end-user experience.”