Verizon extends DOS service to Asia

Your company has a branch office in Singapore or Taiwan? Read this: Multinational corporations can arm themselves against Internet attacks in major regions of the world — the United States, Europe, and now Asia. Now Verizon Business is extending its Denial of Service (DoS) Defense Mitigation offering and making it available immediately to eight countries in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as three additional European countries. Verizon Business appears to be the first major global communications provider to offer these network-based security capabilities to multinational companies around the world. DoS Defense Mitigation services have previously been available in the United States and eleen European countries. The services are now available to eight countries in the Asia-Pacific region (Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, India, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Japan), and three additional countries in Europe (Austria, Italy, and Ireland). Distributed DoS attacks aim to make corporate networks and other resources unavailable to corporate users by what football coaches would call “flooding the zone” — flooding networks and disrupting the flow of legitimate network traffic. DoS attacks have can disrupt or even halt business operations and can pose a major challenge for businesses. Such attacks can be difficult to prevent and are best stopped at the network level. In 2006 approximately 25 percent of Internet attacks were DoS attacks, according to the 2006 CSI FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey. “With more organizations embracing IP, the need for enhancing security at this level becomes critical,” said Kerry Bailey, vice president of Verizon Business security solutions. “This business transformation to IP brings significant benefits, but also increased risk. With the combination of Verizon’s expansive global IP network and unsurpassed security expertise, Verizon DoS Defense Mitigation will help customers improve business continuity and defend against damaging DoS attacks at the network level.”

Verizon DoS Defense Mitigation Services use Verizon’s global IP network to intercept and redirect malicious traffic to mitigation centers housed within Verizon’s IP backbone. Traffic is then quickly rerouted before it can compromise a customer’s network. Customer may review and analyze statistics and metrics related to a mitigated attack by consulting a Verizon dediated portal.