Jan 4, 2005 : The Planet Picks Cisco Appliance

📅 January 4, 2005 - Web hosting provider The Planet Internet Services (theplanet.com 👉 Total Reviews: 3
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The company said that with the solution in place, it can perform per-flow-level attack analysis, identification, and mitigation to block specific attack traffic, helping protect its hosting customers from distributed denial of service attacks.
Cisco's product was chosen because of its ability to scale to meet The Planet's growth, says John Bradberry, director of information security at The Planet.
"We've seen an increase in the overall number of attacks, as well as flood attack methods becoming more complex," says Bradberry. "The Cisco Guard solution helps protect our customers' critical online businesses from ever-escalating attacks including distributed zombie attacks, spoofed flood attacks, and complex hybrid floods that combine attack methods."
Craig Rodenberg, vice president of information security at The Planet, said the deployment is part of the company's larger effort to enhance its security services.
"We've provided state-of-the-art flood protection for years," says Rodenberg. "This solution demonstrates our ongoing commitment to providing our customers with the best security tools in the industry."