Download PDF
Corero Wards Off DDoS Attacks, Keeps Online Video Gaming Service in Play 24x7
Technology Category
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Applicable Industries
- Software
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
GamersFirst, a rapidly growing online video gaming company, was facing serious issues with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks were severely impacting the gaming experience, even preventing online play, which was costing the business tens of thousands of dollars. The attacks were slowing down games and in some cases, bringing them to a halt. This resulted in lost business and the risk of losing customers to other online video gaming sites. The sources of the attacks were typically angry and vindictive former players who had been banned from GamersFirst.com for cheating. These attackers mobilized large armies or “botnets” of hijacked computers to attack the online gaming service. At one point, the service was attacked daily over a four-month period, and an attack even succeeded in bringing down GamersFirst’s data center.
About The Customer
GamersFirst is one of the fastest-growing companies in the fastest growing segments of the video game industry. Part of the K2 Network, the GamersFirst company portal serves more than 28 million gamers in 160 countries, offering a range of multiplayer online games as well as rich community features. The company’s Free2Play model empowers gamers by giving them the opportunity to play games totally free of charge. Unlike the traditional retail model where gamers have to take the full up-front risk of purchasing, or committing to a monthly subscription fee before playing, Free2Play gaming allows users to try before they buy. GamersFirst stands for a place that gamers of all kinds can call “home,” where they decide the price of the games — even when that price is “free.” GamersFirst is by gamers, for gamers.
The Solution
In order to mitigate the DDoS attacks and ensure the availability of the GamersFirst website, the company turned to Corero Network Security. Corero provides effective, on-premises detection and mitigation against all forms of DDoS attack. Prior to implementing Corero’s patented DDoS defense technology, GamersFirst had to rely on its Internet Service Provider (ISP) to divert as much of the DDoS traffic as possible from reaching its network’s borders, and dealt with the rest as best it could. However, these defensive measures were reactive and had limited success. With Corero’s solution positioned on the network border, GamersFirst was able to effectively block DDoS attacks and guarantee uninterrupted play for gamers. Corero’s solution provides superior throughput, unmatched detection and industry-leading low latency. Its Three Dimensional Protection (3DP) architecture features defense against all types of Denial of Service attacks; stateful deep packet inspection and stateful firewall filtering.
Operational Impact
Quantitative Benefit
Related Case Studies.
Case Study
Factor-y S.r.l. – Establishes a cost-effective, security-rich development environment with SoftLayer technology
Factor-y S.r.l., a web portal developer, was faced with the challenge of migrating its development infrastructure to a reliable cloud services provider with highly responsive technical support. The company needed a solution that would not only provide a secure and reliable environment but also support its expansion by providing resources to create and deliver innovative offerings.
Case Study
Darwin Ecosystem: Accelerating discovery and insight through cutting-edge big data and cognitive technologies
Darwin Ecosystem was founded with a unique vision of harnessing chaos theory mathematics to uncover previously hidden connections in unstructured data. The company’s algorithms can look at all the data generated by any source (such as news, RSS feeds and Twitter), and analyze how a specific set of concepts within that data are evolving over time. This is particularly valuable in situations such as business and competitive intelligence, social research, brand monitoring, legal discovery, risk mitigation and even law enforcement. A common problem in these areas is that a regular web search will only turn up the all-time most popular answers to a given question – but what the expert researcher is actually interested in is the moment-tomoment evolution of the data available on that topic. Darwin’s algorithm is computationally intensive, and the sources of data it correlates can be vast. To bring its benefits to a larger commercial audience, Darwin needed to find a way to make it scale.
Case Study
Zend accelerates, simplifies PHP development
Zend Technologies, a major contributor to the PHP open source community, needed to keep pace with emerging trends such as mobility, agile development, application lifecycle management and continuous delivery. The company needed to provide the right tools to the worldwide community of PHP developers. The challenge was to support enterprise-class capabilities from end to end, including mobile, compliance and security. The pace of business required developers to show results fast across a variety of devices without compromising quality or security.
Case Study
Delivering modern data protection with cloud scale backup from Cobalt Iron and IBM
Organizations are struggling to modernize their legacy data protection environments in the face of growing demands around new infrastructure, new applications, and budget consolidation. Virtualization and modern application development processes have significantly outgrown legacy backup architectures. In response, infrastructure teams have created multiple backup solution types to handle the varying SLAs (performance, scale, cost) required by their business sponsors. However, the sheer number and variety of solutions in this uncontrolled expansion creates huge amounts of work, threatening to overwhelm the IT team in many organizations. Today, developers may add new applications and virtual server instances by the hundreds per day without accounting for the restrictions of the existing backup infrastructure. They leverage the cloud for immediate compute and storage resources, yet rarely communicate succinctly with corporate IT to ensure that the appropriate data protection services are in place.
Case Study
Achieving near limitless scalability and flexibility with data in the cloud
Web-based publishing platform SpaceCraft found that as its client base grew, it was spending an increasing amount of time managing its databases, distracting its focus from product innovation. As its user base rapidly expanded, data volumes at SpaceCraft began to rise dramatically. Along with their main focus on maintaining and further developing a great platform for web publishing, the SpaceCraft team had the added pressure of managing the increasing quantities of data while ensuring ongoing high performance for clients.
Case Study
nViso SA – Delivers emotion recognition solutions worldwide with a scalable SoftLayer hosting solution
nViso SA, a company that provides emotion recognition solutions, was in need of a high-performance cloud hosting infrastructure. The company wanted to extend its services to a global customer base. The challenge was to find a solution that could handle the demands of their growing customer base and the need for high performance and reliability.
