IntruGuard Protects Top Turkish Social Networking Website from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks

Yonja.com Utilizes IntruGuard’s IG2000 to protect its Social Networking Infrastructure

Sunnyvale, CA, April 02, 2007 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time. IntruGuard Devices, Inc., a provider of globally proven Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) Systems, today announced that Yonja.com, the leading Turkish Social Networking Website has selected IntruGuard’s IG2000 for NBA and DDoS Attack Mitigation.

Yonja is using IntruGuard’s IG2000 as part of its security initiative to prevent itself from becoming a target of hackers and attackers. It uses the system to protect its network resources and critical online assets from various threats such as traffic anomalies, high volume SYN floods, BotNet floods and other DDoS attacks.

“We thoroughly evaluated all the DDoS mitigation solutions available in the market. IntruGuard’s IG2000 offered us the best performing solution at an affordable price with its industry leading anti-DDoS mitigation capabilities, an ASIC-based data-path architecture, and outstanding training and support,” said Andreas Oesterer, CTO of Yonja. “Within a month of installation in our network, the appliance had proven its effectiveness by stopping massive BotNet attacks from reaching our servers. We are confident in IntruGuard’s ability to protect our critical online assets and ensure uninterrupted service to our subscribers. We are happy to recommend this solution to web hosting service providers and data centers that have a critical need for DDoS mitigation.”

Yonja is one of the leading International new media companies, providing matchmaking, social networking and e-commerce services to millions of active members worldwide.

“DDoS attacks are on the rise. It is a matter of time before each and every organization with Internet presence feels the impact of DDoS attacks. ASIC-based, high performance, rapid-response and affordable solutions from IntruGuard is the best way to mitigate DDoS attacks for such organizations,” said IntruGuard’s co-founder and CTO Hemant Jain. “Customers such as Yonja have been happy with us due to superior product quality, maturity, high performance and support. These are key criteria for selection when service uptime is crucial.”

About Yonja

Based in San Francisco, CA, Yonja offers a comprehensive set of features and services for a number of different relationship categories: matchmaking, networking, self-expression, and e-commerce — all of which help leverage personal and professional relationships, in a fun, useful and familiar environment.

About IntruGuard

IntruGuard is the leading provider of Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) Systems for Web-hosts, Service Providers and Enterprise Data Centers. These ASIC based high performance and rapid response NBA systems provide granular real time network traffic visibility and provide automatic protection against targeted DDoS attacks. Fore more information visit http://www.intruguard.com.

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