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Government and Education
Government systems have long been a prime target for
malicious intruders. Because of the public's need for an uninterrupted
flow of information, governments have no margin of error in fighting
attacks that can penetrate their internal networks.
By acting like split-second circuit breakers to block attacks while
letting legitimate traffic through, IntruGuard's Intrusion Gateway products
detect and block attacks instantaneously, requiring no intervention
from an administrator, a significant advantage for understaffed security
teams in government agencies at all levels.
Following a co-ordinated and sustained DDoS attack on some of the major government sites recently, many services were denied causing widespread anxiety and discomfort.
Our dependence on government networks is growing day by day.
Government and Education networks are easy targets of DDoS attacks because it is easy to make someone angry among your visitors. Scripted attacks are most common on social network sites. These attacks are otherwise very difficult to differentiate from legitimate access.
IntruGuard’s intuitive reporting features provide service provider administrators with easy-to-read graphs of network traffic by networks parameters, including ports and protocols, and help them analyze history ranging from the prior five minutes to the prior year.
Key reasons why world’s leading government and education sites depend on IntruGuard products:
- Virtually painless deployment in a few minutes with minimum downtime
- Hardware logic based – high performance appliance
- SYN flood and botnet flood mitigation – state of the art
- layer 7 visibility and control into traffic to thwart attacks which appears legitimate to all other devices (URL, host, referer, cookies, User-Agents
- World-class support from IntruGuard team for configuration and at the time of attacks
Compliance Mandates for DDoS Attack Mitigation
| Regulation |
Mandates |
| FFIEC |
• Availability security objectives |
| Gramm-Leach Bliley |
• Protect Security and Confidentiality of Customer’s Non-Public Personal Information
• Protect Against Anticipated Threats and Hazards to Information Security
• Establish Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Program |
| Sarbanes Oxley |
• Secure Information Infrastructure
• Safeguard Information Assets |
| USA Patriot Act |
• Implement Risk Based Systems and Monitoring |
| Basel II |
• Monitoring of Risks
• Business Continuity Plans
• Implementation of Risk Mitigation |
For further information on our solutions, read our white papers on DDoS attack mitigation:
Infrastructure Protection for Data Centers through Network Behavior Analysis (NBA)
Protecting Connected Schools : K-12 Security
Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) Systems For Service Providers
Network Visibility without NetFlow
Go Beyond MRTG
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