Prolexic, a US Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services firm, announced that Seek.com.au, an Australian employment website, has selected Prolexic to provide DDoS detection and DDoS protection services. The Australian owned and operated website claims 21 million site visitors each month.
Recently, Seek.com.au was hit by a Layer 7 (application layer) distributed denial of service attack that rendered the site’s job search data and services inaccessible. As an insurance policy against downtime caused by attacks, SEEK chose Prolexic to provide DDoS mitigation services.
Andre Bertrand, security services manager at SEEK, said: “Prolexic is a specialist in DDoS mitigation and that’s all they do. DDoS mitigation is only an add-on service with ISPs and other providers. It all comes down to how much experience the provider has in DDoS, which is a very specialised business. We wanted only the best protection and we feel that Prolexic is clearly the best DDoS mitigation provider in the industry.”
Stu Scholly, President of Prolexic, said: “Being prepared is the best defense against DDoS attacks and SEEK has taken a proactive step by putting Prolexic on the front lines of its mitigation strategy. Prolexic advises all businesses to make cyberattack defense a part of their incident response plan to eliminate panic and ensure a calm and controlled response to a DDoS attack.”
Since signing on as a client, Prolexic says that it has worked with SEEK to create a pre-rehearsed DDoS mitigation plan or playbook of defensive actions to be taken as soon as a DDoS attack is detected. As a result, SEEK now has a DDoS mitigation plan in place with Prolexic as its first line of defence. While SEEK has not needed to use Prolexic’s DDoS mitigation service yet, management has taken advantage of other benefits of being a Prolexic customer. “We have found Prolexic to be very helpful in providing intelligence on DDoS and cyber attacks so that we can be proactive in our DDoS defense,” Bertrand said.
“Prolexic’s efforts in testing our mitigation strategy, keeping up-to-date with the playbook, and providing DDoS intelligence on a regular basis has been refreshing compared to other DDoS mitigation vendors,” added Bertrand.
To learn more, the full seek.com.au case study can be downloaded from www.prolexic.com/seek.
