ZEN Network Technologies Further Upgrades DDoS Protection with IntruGuard Appliances

Dec. 21, 2010 - PRLog -- Recently there has been increase in volume related to distributed denial of service attacks. To protect its customers from such attacks during busy holiday buying seasons, ZEN Network Technologies announced today that it has further upgraded its network with more IG200-U high capacity, robust DDoS mitigation appliances from IntruGuard.

ZEN Network technologies helps protect several leading retailers and other websites from distributed denial of service attacks. ZEN was able to help these sites sustain the attacks and allow them to stay in business during some of the busiest shopping days of the year and continues to do so. These attacks could have cost retailers millions of dollars in otherwise lost revenue.

IntruGuard manufactures DDoS attack mitigation appliances which are used by web-hosts around the world to provide cloud based DDoS mitigation services. The hardware-logic based appliances surgically remove network and application layer DDoS attacks while letting legitimate traffic flow. These appliances protect mission-critical systems with minimum additional complexity and management costs using carrier-class platform.
These appliances eliminate threats that can compromise revenue opportunities and avoid collateral damage, reputation loss and maintain compliance.

“DDoS attacks have been in the news lately,” said David Moreau, Director, ZEN Network Technologies. “We want to ensure that during holiday season and later, all our customers who host e-commerce solutions with us have peaceful transactions. We need to increase the confidence in the cloud. IntruGuard’s appliances match our high expectations. We have upgraded our network infrastructure by adding more IntruGuard IG200 systems to block such attacks”, commented Moreau.

“Further validation from existing customers has been our hallmark since we started deploying our appliances in 2005.” said Hemant Jain, co-founder and CTO of IntruGuard. “DDoS mitigation is a police-and-thief game. We need to continously work with our customers to enhance our hardware logic based appliances so that the appliances continue to block current generation of attacks. ZEN’s network is a state-of-the-art facility where our appliances are tested to their capacity and we are glad that our appliances help them build further business in the DDoS mitigation space.” added Jain.

IntruGuard’s products are available and supported globally.

About ZEN Network Technologies

Based in United Kingdom, ZEN Network Technologies marries quality service and advanced technology to provide full-range, sophisticated products tailored to individual requirements. Whether you require a dedicated server or global protection against threats that target your products and services, ZEN is there to assist you at each stage in your development. For more information, visit http:/www. ZENprotection.com.

About IntruGuard
IntruGuard is a leading supplier of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack Mitigation Systems for web-properties, web-hosts, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and Internet Data Centers (IDC). These systems provide granular real time network traffic visibility and provide automatic protection against targeted DDoS attacks. These systems are vital in network security infrastructure of Internet facing operation to ensure smooth network operation, full legitimate use of bandwidth and to improve network utilization.
For more information, visit http://www.intruguard.com.

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IntruGuard is a leading supplier of DDoS Attack Mitigation Systems for e-tailers, Online commerce companies, Internet Gaming companies, Web Hosting Service Providers, Internet Service Providers , Internet Data Centers and Enterprise Data Centers.