Verizon extends DoS detection service to 23 countries

Verizon service actively reroutes attack traffic away from corporate servers

Verizon Business is extending the reach of its Denial of Service Detection service to 23 new countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom and Japan.

Verizon's DoS detection system is a managed service that utilizes several international security centers located on Verizon's global IP backbone to scan for potentially malicious traffic patterns on the Web and to give customers notification if their system is under attack. This will give users the ability to spot DoS attacks in their early stages by giving them frequent reports based on Verizon's analysis of backbone traffic, the company says.

Once an attack is discovered, Verizon's managed service team can then reroute the traffic away from a target's network by using Verizon's DoS Mitigation managed service that intercepts attack traffic and sifts it out from legitimate traffic. In other words, the Mitigation service can filter out the bad traffic while still delivering good traffic to the user.

Verizon customers can sign up for the Detection and Mitigation managed services as complimentary or separate services. The company says that the services are backed by service-level agreements that guarantee a 15-minute response from Verizon in the event of an attack. Users can also take advantage of a 24-hour service portal that lets them monitor their own traffic to detect unusual spikes that may be indicative of a DoS attack.

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Verizon Business is extending the reach of its Denial of Service Detection service to 23 new countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom and Japan.

Verizon's DoS detection system is a managed service that utilizes several international security centers located on Verizon's global IP backbone to scan for potentially malicious traffic patterns on the Web and to give customers notification if their system is under attack. This will give users the ability to spot DoS attacks in their early stages by giving them frequent reports based on Verizon's analysis of backbone traffic, the company says.

Once an attack is discovered, Verizon's managed service team can then reroute the traffic away from a target's network by using Verizon's DoS Mitigation managed service that intercepts attack traffic and sifts it out from legitimate traffic. In other words, the Mitigation service can filter out the bad traffic while still delivering good traffic to the user.

Verizon customers can sign up for the Detection and Mitigation managed services as complimentary or separate services. The company says that the services are backed by service-level agreements that guarantee a 15-minute response from Verizon in the event of an attack. Users can also take advantage of a 24-hour service portal that lets them monitor their own traffic to detect unusual spikes that may be indicative of a DoS attack.

Distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks, in which a hacker users several servers to take an IP address offline by flooding it with packet requests, have been significantly increasing in scale over the past few years. According to a recent Arbor Networks survey of 66 global ISPs, DDoS are now reaching peak intensities of up to 42Gbps, or nearly double the 24Gbps peak attacks recorded in 2007.

Pricing for the Detection service starts at $2,000 per month, while the Mitigation service starts at $3,500 a month. Together, the two services cost $5,500 a month. The DoS Detection and Mitigation services had previously both been only available in the United States. With the expansion, the services are now available in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and most of Western Europe.

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