Web Hosting Provider, Deploys IntruGuard IG2000 Attack Mitigation Appliance

Sunnyvale, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 28, 2007 - The Denial of Service attack mitigation appliance from ntruGuard Devices, Inc., has been deployed at Internet hosting service provider in Switzerland, METANET AG, to protects its links, from diverse international locations.

The METANET AG has 500 servers in two data centers in Zurich, serving 10,000 customers and over 25,000 domains. The international links were badly abused and were affected by many denial of service (DoS) attacks and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks prior to the deployment of IG2000. After its installation, attack traffic was automatically filtered allowing legitimate traffic through.

Mirco Schnarwiler, Co-founder of METANET AG noted, ''Botnet and DDOS attacks have been growing and cost-conscious hosting providers like us need custom hardware based solutions that can withstand the attacks and mitigate them with the least manual intervention. IntruGuardā€™s IG2000 lets us focus on more important business priorities. Ensuring high network availability to our customers is our prime concern. IntruGuard IG2000 was the best of the breed solution on the market for the purpose. Finally, it is the service that differentiates us in this competitive space and IntruGuardā€™s IG2000 is an enabler.''

METANET AG surveyed existing products from leading vendors that promised DDoS attack mitigation. While IPS products claimed DDoS mitigation capabilities, IntruGuardā€™s focus on DDoS attack mitigation through custom hardware and high performance solution made it the top choice. Netflow based solutions were too complex and expensive to deploy. METANET AG determined that IntruGuardā€™s IG2000 was the only solution that could protect against DoS, DDoS and Botnet attacks effectively. IntruGuardā€™s excellent support and installation service turned out to be world-class ensuring a smooth deployment and subsequent operation.

Hemant Jain, Co-founder and CTO of IntruGuard remarked, ''IG200/2000, with their fine granularity of counters used for traffic parameter monitoring build complex and detailed legitimate traffic model for a web-hosting infrastructure. This helps in mitigation of complex DDoS and Botnet attacks that attempt to mimic legitimate traffic. The web hosting industry is overwhelmed with growing number of DDoS and Botnet attacks. These attacks are resulting in lost revenues and unhappy customers due to the associated downtime. This affects their business image, reducing their competitiveness as customers are easily able to move a website to another service provider.''

IG2000 In-line Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) Systems, the IG2000 and IG200 appliances, have received recognition from entities such as the Tolly Group, Hosting Week Magazine

IntruGuard is a provider of Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) Systems for Web-hosts, Service Providers and Enterprise Data Centers. The ASIC based high performance and rapid response NBA systems provide granular real time network traffic visibility and provide automatic protection against targeted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. These systems are vital in network security infrastructure of any service provider or enterprise data center network to ensure smooth network operation, full legitimate use of bandwidth and improve network utilization. IntruGuard Devices, Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Silicon Valley.

The METANET AG is an independent Internet Hosting Provider based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 2000, the enterprise concentrates on a broad product range for Hosting services for resellers and end customers.

To learn more, please visit: www.metanet.ch.

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