February 25, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Riverhead Networks (riverhead.com), a provider of intrusion detection and mitigation solutions for service providers and large enterprises, announced on Tuesday that it has been selected by DataPipe Managed Hosting Services (datapipe.com) to provide the technology that will power DataPipe's SureArmour distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection service.
DataPipe will deploy the Riverhead Guard XT, unveiled last month, to provide DDoS attack mitigation capabilities for SureArmour, which is available as a subscription service. Riverhead Guard XT is based on the company's multi-verification process architecture that identifies and filters malicious traffic while allowing legitimate traffic to continue flowing.
"Managed service providers such as DataPipe are on the front lines of the DDoS wars. They and their customers suffer the consequences of these attacks every day, and only they understand the level of protection they need," says Yuval Rachmilevitz, CEO of Riverhead. "When DataPipe was looking for a solution, they concluded that only Riverhead's new XT Series of appliances deliver the performance and scalability they need to defend against the massively distributed attacks they are seeing."
DataPipe said it developed SureArmour in order to fulfill the requests of customers whom DataPipe says are increasingly looking to their managed service providers to combat the growing volume of DDoS attacks. In the last few months, the MyDoom virus was successful in bringing down the Web site of the SCO group while a variant of the virus attacked Microsoft. Several reports also documented a number of DDoS attacks against gambling sites on Super Bowl Sunday.
"The recent flurry of attacks has shown just how vulnerable businesses are to DDoS attacks," says Robb Allen, CEO of DataPipe Managed Services. "SureArmour is designed to provide our customers with the protection they need, which in turn leaves them secure in the knowledge that their business operations are safe. The Riverhead technology plays a key role in this effort, delivering purpose-built solutions that allow DataPipe to mitigate even the largest and most powerful attacks with unequaled precision, which translates into maximum uptime and availability for our SureArmour subscribers."
