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May 23, 2013

Clickpoint! Media Selects Prolexic DDoS Mitigation Services

Prolexic will offer DDoS improvement services to Clickpoint! Media. Clickpoint! will utilize these services for its numerous websites across its media services network where group of media services aimed to assist marketing and advertising organizations optimize their campaigns in terms of increased return on investment, augmented online traffic and amplified brand understanding are delivered.

A Layer 4 SYN flood was experienced by Clickpoint!, which was initiated at 80 to 100 Mbps and rapidly transformed into a sequence of distributed denial of service attacks that augmented to 800 Mbps. The organization had to shut down its website for nearly four hours, two times each day for the whole week. Clickpoint! was not able to offer a crucial component of its media service during the downtime, resulting in restricted customer account access.

The organization carried out several efforts to decrease the series of attacks, which were swelling in terms of size and intricacy, which is why it finally chose DDoS mitigation services from Prolexic.

In a statement, Stuart Scholly, president, Prolexic said, "Online businesses like Clickpoint! that rely so heavily on the Internet for day-to-day business operations are especially susceptible to DDoS attacks. Because attacks are continuing to increase in size and complexity, they are outgrowing the level of protection that hardware appliances, ISPs, telcos, and content delivery networks typically provide."

All the Clickpoint! sites were up and running in a few minutes after the DDoS mitigation engineers at the Prolexic Security Operations Center or SOC routed the traffic via Prolexic's international scrubbing centers. Prolexic's engineers utilized an amalgamation of sophisticated proprietary techniques, equipment, and real-time tracking best practices to rapidly develop and initiate countermeasures to obstruct the altering attack vectors.

According to Prolexic, the attacks were initiated from Turkey and Romania. The instantaneous attack metrics revealing the source of the attacks and other metrics will help Clickpoint! in developing a more robust DDoS defense.

Roberto Siano (News - Alert), CEO and founder, Clickpoint! said, "No one is safe from DDoS and other types of cyber attacks. With Prolexic's protection against DDoS in place, Clickpoint! can give our marketing and advertising customers absolute confidence that the critical media services they rely on will always be available and accessible."




Edited by Ashley Caputo
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