10 July, 2013 du expands Managed Security Solutions portfolio: launches cloud-based next generation advanced Managed Security Services

Next generation du Managed DDoS Protect solution detects and mitigates complex volumetric and application layer attacks

Building on the successful launch of its DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Protect solution during GITEX 2012, and as part of its continuous efforts to help businesses in the UAE mitigate frequent DDoS attacks, du has announced an enhanced next generation Managed Security Services portfolio by introducing range of cloud-based security solutions. These enhanced solutions can detect the ever-growing number of complex protocols used in DDoS attacks, as well as having the capability to handle higher capacity attacks.

Hatem Bamatraf, Executive Vice President, Enterprise, du, said: "Our next generation Managed DDoS Protect demonstrates our commitment to continuously investing in Managed Security, which enables enterprise customers to stay abreast of growing security challenges. As enterprise security threats grow in size and sophistication, existing protection tools cannot keep up with the increasingly dynamic and polymorphic threats that leverage a mixture of volumetric and application layer attacks. Edge resources near the target, such as IDS, IPS and firewalls, can be overwhelmed fairly easily, rendering protection irrelevant. DDoS protection is one of the very few security requirements organisations can only address via a managed security service from an upstream provider, such as an ISP, using a cloud-based detection and mitigation approach to the problem."

du's Next Generation Managed DDoS Protect enables enterprises to respond in real-time to DDoS attacks, while keeping legitimate traffic flowing in to its network.

Some of the unique features of du's Next Generation DDoS protection service offering are:
· Real time DDoS threat intelligence to provide personalized DDoS detection and mitigation to customers' networks. This approach ensures that each customer threat situation is analyzed and managed separately rather than using blanket approach.

· Full visibility on application layer attack detection through 1:1 IP packet inspection offers better protection compared to services where they only do sample inspection periodically.

du's Managed Security Service is available as a value-added offering bundled with the Premium Broadband subscription.

For further details, please visit www.du.ae/managedservices.

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