IP Converge Data Services, Inc. together with its partner, Internet security provider Nexusguard, recently announced that the country’s first locally hosted DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack scrubbing center is now fully operational.
In photo: Reynaldo Huergas, IP-Converged President
Data scrubbing centers are centralized facilities and infrastructure created as a line of defense against DDoS attacks. This one, specifically, will be co-located in IPC’s own Internet data center facility and operated by experienced and highly skilled DDoS Mitigation professionals. In a press briefing, IPC and Nexusguard revealed that they enforced all reasonable measures to hasten the institution of said scrubbing center.
“In our years of experience in DDoS mitigation, we’ve seen an alarming growth in scale and variety of attacks. In addition, the number of targeted industries have likewise increased. Attacks are now also directed towards various enterprises and institutions. It is for this reason that we partnered with Nexusguard to deliver world-class local DDoS defense for Filipino organizations at the soonest time possible,” said IPC President Reynaldo Huergas.
Based on report by Nexusguard, there was an increase of 77.52% in the number of attacks launched in the second quarter of 2014 compared to Q1. In addition, the longest attack was six times longer and the peak packets-per-second increased by 149%.
“This scrubbing center will be connected to the Nexusguard global network of scrubbing centers, allowing attacks to be mitigated at the country of origin. Attack traffic aimed at PH targets are mitigated on our end and never reach the country. In addition, our international facilities provide IPC with redundancy and failover options if so needed,” said Bill Barry, Nexusguard Executive Vice President.
According to Nexusguard to build a scrubbing center it will require an investment of USD2 million, but IP Converge did not have to spend the same amount since they already have the facilities and infrastructure. All they need is the technology and expertise of Nexusguard to implement the solution.
Scrubbing Center like this works a technology insurance for customers specially those who are into e-Commerce, government websites and corporate clients that are prone to DDoS attack.
This service is one of the first solution offered in the Philippines, it is offered as subscription type where customers do not need to buy appliance, maintain it, upgrade and becomes obsolete after x number of years. The DDoS Attack Scrubbing Center requires no Capex but Opex. If they want to stop the subscription after the lock-in period, they can opt to.
IP Converge did not disclose their customers because of non-disclosure agreement, but they us that they have big client in the gaming industry as well as in the Financial Service Industry (FSI).
