Every organization with a direct internet connection is at risk of being targeted by a distributed denial of service attack, with the potential of significantly disrupting business. According to the Cisco VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast, 2016-2021, the number of DDoS attacks greater than 1 Gbps – enough to take most organizations completely offline – grew 172% in 2016 and will increase 2.5-fold to 3.1 million by 2021.

Automated DDoS protection is included with Flexential managed bandwidth services. This proprietary service enables us to ensure your bandwidth is available 100% of the time, a commitment that few other providers stand behind.

Your business will be protected from Layer 3 and 4 volumetric attacks up to 2 terabytes 24/7. When threats are detected, malicious traffic is scrubbed and discarded while clean traffic is returned.

Automated DDoS protection

• One-of-a-kind, automated and on-demand

• No additional charge with Flexential managed bandwidth services

• 24/7 protection with 100% uptime commitment

• Layer 3 and 4 volumetric protection up to 2 terabytes

• Support from dedicated, highly skilled backbone network engineers

• Automated ticketing outlining the size, time and actions taken when attacks are detected

• Enjoy 100% network and bandwidth uptime

• Protect your business from disruptive and malicious attacks

• Gain dedicated network support and management, off-payroll

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Included with Flexential managed IP bandwidth services

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Proven protectionYour customers and business depend on the services and data delivered across your network. But within a fraction of a second, your network can be compromised by a malicious and deliberate DDoS attack.

The Flexential DDoS solution has successfully and automatically mitigated hundreds of attacks in the past year, without manual intervention. More than 20 of the attacks exceeded 10 gigabits of traffic, with the largest being over 30 Gb.

How it worksThis proprietary service moves traffic automatically off the Flexential network to a service provider partner that scrubs traffic and quickly returns clean traffic to the network.

Continuously monitoring netflow data, the service automatically redirects the targeted IP network to our scrubbing partner when threshold

breaches are detected. That traffic is mitigated and clean traffic is returned to the Flexential IP service network through private, dedicated links. This prevents legitimate users from being denied access to services by the those with bad intentions.

Prompt mitigationWhereas mitigating an attack and restoring traffic could take hours, the Flexential DDoS service returns clean, rerouted traffic within minutes of a detected attack.

Immediately afterward, a ticket is automatically generated that alerts you to the size and time of the attack as well as the actions our dedicated, highly skilled team of backbone network engineers took to protect your business.

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