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DDoS Protection Services:What Really Matters to eCommerce Companies
Survey of e-retailers
• Topics– DDoS protection– Effectiveness of DDoS mitigation services
• Participants– Retail companies with e-Commerce websites– Business sectors: consumer electronics, healthcare,
online payment processing, fashion and apparel, toys and gifts, heating and plumbing, software-as-a-service
– A statistically significant subset of Prolexic customers– United States, Europe and Asia
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Summary of results
• These company’s websites are at mid-to-high risk of DDoS attack
• DDoS mitigation services from ISPs and content delivery networks (CDNs) were deemed ineffective
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ISPs and content delivery networks (CDNs)
• Least effective of DDoS protection services• Especially ineffective against direct-to-origin
DDoS attacks• Especially ineffective against application-layer
attacks
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ISPs and content delivery networks, continued
• ISPs– 42 percent ranked ISPs as least effective– 8 percent ranked ISPs as most effective
• CDNs– 58 percent ranked CDNs as least effective– None ranked CDNs as most effective
• On-site DDoS mitigation appliances– 33 percent ranked appliances as least effective– None ranked appliances as most effective
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Survey respondents prefer
• A mature, pure-play DDoS mitigation service• Scalable to stop the largest DDoS attacks • Low false positives• Fastest mitigation • Service level agreement (SLA)• Proven track record for site availability and
business continuity during a DDoS attack
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Expectations of survey respondents for their DDoS protection service
• A total DDoS protection solution
• Protect all IPs and carriers at once– Not add-on services from
multiple ISPs or CDNs
• Routed protection against all avenues of attack
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Learn more
• Download the report DDoS Protection Services: What Really Matters to e-Commerce Companies at www.prolexic.com/ecommerce-report
• In this report, you’ll learn:– The top three must-have capabilities for a DDoS protection
provider– Why CDNs and ISPs are the least effective DDoS protection services– The perceived importance of:
• Site availability• Protection from non-DDoS attack vectors• Site responsiveness• PCI compliance • and more
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About Prolexic
• Prolexic Technologies is the world’s largest and most trusted provider of DDoS protection and mitigation services.
• Prolexic has successfully stopped DDoS attacks for more than a decade.
• We can stop even the largest attacks that exceed the capabilities of other DDoS mitigation service providers.