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DDoS Protection Services

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In the digital age, the threat of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is ever-present, posing significant risks to network availability and uptime. Merit’s DDoS Protection service offers a robust defense against volumetric, Layer 3 attacks, ensuring that your network remains secure and operational. Leveraging advanced detection and mitigation technologies, Merit’s service provides real-time monitoring and rapid response to any attack, minimizing downtime and protecting critical infrastructure.

Merit also offers Layer 7 web application protection with Cloudflare.

Why Choose Merit DDoS Protection?

Merit’s DDoS Protection service is designed to provide the highest level of security for your network. With advanced threat detection, real-time monitoring, and rapid mitigation, you can trust that your network is in good hands. Our comprehensive reporting tools offer insights into attack patterns and mitigation efforts, helping you stay informed and prepared. Supported by a team of experienced security professionals, Merit’s DDoS Protection ensures that your network is safeguarded around the clock.

DDoS Attack Process

Under Attack

The Merit Support Center (MSC) monitors traffic 24 hours a day. The network detection system establishes baselines for normal traffic activity, allowing it to spot attacks.

  1. During an attack, the MSC notifies your designated IT points of contact and seeks authorization to launch defensive maneuvers, known as mitigation. Subscribers also can choose the “always on” option, in which case the MSC does not need your authorization to begin mitigation.
  2. Traffic is rerouted to “scrubbers” that block and remove the bad traffic.
  3. The clean traffic exits the scrubbers and heads to your network.
  4. We monitor the situation until the event is over.

What You See on Your Side

  1. Your points of contact receive notification of an attack.
  2. Subscribers who’ve chosen the “always available” option are asked for authorization to mitigate. Subscribers who’ve selected the “always on” option are notified that mitigation is taking place.
  3. You receive updates along the way, including when mitigation is complete.

We Help Thwart Attacks

When launching a DDoS attack, hackers take advantage of vulnerabilities in the internet’s architecture. They coordinate hosts to deploy hundreds of thousands of bots. This lets them inflate the attack and inundate a network with traffic. The bogus traffic clogs your network. Sites go down. Internet access is blocked. Employees can’t access email and other critical cloud services. Attackers may be motivated by anything from grudges to greed. Merit’s many members in the education sector may be familiar with attacks launched on exam days. Our team also has seen online gaming feuds spill over into attacks on campuses. Attacks have become more effective, sophisticated — and cheap.

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DDoS Protection Service: Poise Under Pressure

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DDoS attacks used to just be brute force, in your face, collateral damage,” says Kevin Hayes, Merit’s chief information security officer. “But now criminals use them tactically: as diversions while they steal your intellectual property, for example. These attacks have been commercialized to the point where someone with almost no technical expertise whatsoever can go onto the dark web, pay some cryptocurrency and say, ‘I would like an attack launched on this organization, or server, or IP address.

Kevin Hayes, Chief Information Security Officer
Merit Network Inc.

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