Changes

On May 2011, a research commissioned by Verisign found a widespread DDoS attacks on businesses in all industries. The research revealed that 63% out of the 225 IT decision-makers who respond to the survey reported that they experience more than one DDoS attacks for the past year while 11% said they experienced more than 6 attacks. Sixty seven percent (67%) of the respondents believe that the frequency of DDoS attacks within the next two years will increase or stay the same and 71% of the respondents believe that DDoS protection is important to maintain their website and services available and 71% of the respondents who lack DDoS protection plan to implent solutions within the next 12 months. <ref>[http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110509_businesses_lack_safeguards_against_ddos_attacks_dns_failures/ Businesses Lack Safeguards Against DDoS Attacks and DNS Failures, New Research Shows]</ref>

On May 2011, a research commissioned by Verisign found a widespread DDoS attacks on businesses in all industries. The research revealed that 63% out of the 225 IT decision-makers who respond to the survey reported that they experience more than one DDoS attacks for the past year while 11% said they experienced more than 6 attacks. Sixty seven percent (67%) of the respondents believe that the frequency of DDoS attacks within the next two years will increase or stay the same and 71% of the respondents believe that DDoS protection is important to maintain their website and services available and 71% of the respondents who lack DDoS protection plan to implent solutions within the next 12 months. <ref>[http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110509_businesses_lack_safeguards_against_ddos_attacks_dns_failures/ Businesses Lack Safeguards Against DDoS Attacks and DNS Failures, New Research Shows]</ref>

==Neustar SiteProtect DDoS Protection==

===Neustar SiteProtect===

On April 2011, [[Neustar]] launched '''SiteProtect''', a cloud based service which aims to provide higher level of security for UltraDNS customers against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. SiteProtect enables web infrastructures to function normally and avoids downtime even if it is under attack. The combination of SiteProtect and UltraDNS provide consumers with a strong protection for the Domain Name System ([[DNS]]) and web traffic, protecting business owners from possible revenue loss. According to Rick Rumbarger, Product Management Senior Director of Neustar Internet Infrastructure Services, ''"The problem with other approaches to DDoS protection is that the network needs to take a hit before mitigation is started. With SiteProtect, the brunt of the attack is immediately shifted away from the client infrastructure and directed to our mitigation cloud service. By moving this service to the cloud, customers no longer have to buy and maintain large capacity infrastructure with its resulting capex expenses."'' <ref>[http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110405_neustar_launches_siteprotect_for_ddos_protection/ Neustar Launches SiteProtect for DDoS Protection]</ref>

On April 2011, [[Neustar]] launched '''SiteProtect''', a cloud based service which aims to provide higher level of security for UltraDNS customers against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. SiteProtect enables web infrastructures to function normally and avoids downtime even if it is under attack. The combination of SiteProtect and UltraDNS provide consumers with a strong protection for the Domain Name System ([[DNS]]) and web traffic, protecting business owners from possible revenue loss. According to Rick Rumbarger, Product Management Senior Director of Neustar Internet Infrastructure Services, ''"The problem with other approaches to DDoS protection is that the network needs to take a hit before mitigation is started. With SiteProtect, the brunt of the attack is immediately shifted away from the client infrastructure and directed to our mitigation cloud service. By moving this service to the cloud, customers no longer have to buy and maintain large capacity infrastructure with its resulting capex expenses."'' <ref>[http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110405_neustar_launches_siteprotect_for_ddos_protection/ Neustar Launches SiteProtect for DDoS Protection]</ref>