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ADVANCED DDoS and FLASH CROWD MANAGEMENT

New Philosophy

A Different Perspective Defends Against DDoS and Manages Flash Crowds

Traditional defensive strategies against DDoS attacks focus on identifying and blocking "bad" traffic. IntelliGuard has an entirely different approach: prioritize your customers based on trust and then only let through as much traffic as your network/applications can handle. The result is robust protection from DDoS attacks and optimal handling of flash crowd events.

How It Works

The patented, core technology from IntelliGuard implements the simple philosophy:

learn the behavior of normal existing and new customers, and understand the behavioural differences between machines and humans. rank all traffic by levels of trust determined by activity and historical behavior protect all network entities, customers and services with traffic guarantees and limits - eliminating collateral damage from excess DDoS or flash crowd traffic

The diagram below outlines this process in more detail.

Applying this new philosophy of DDoS protection defeats attacks where traditional approaches fail. To learn more refer to our library.

The elegance of this philosophy disguises the actual technical challenges that needed to be overcome. IntelliGuard's software is deployed on standard hardware to deliver:

fast packet capture at line rates of upto 24Gbps on a single appliance massively parallel inspection and analysis algorithms running in real time to intelligently and continuously rank all the traffic at line rate prioritize and filter the traffic to each network entity in real-time with only microseconds of latency

A Structured Process

Learn

Continuously model normal traffic behavior

Rank

Identify users based on current and historic network traffic, including time spacing, type/volume of traffic, location, etc.

Protect

Prioritize customer traffic by incoming IP address and then only allow in as much traffic as each network component can handle.