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Switch Partners with Radware to Secure the World’s Largest Colocation Data Centers and to Protect Its Customers From Attack

Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

Cybersecurity Services

The Challenge

Switch’s SUPERNAP data centers required protection from all forms of DDoS threats via a security solution that provided a wide breadth of protection, thereby allowing the company to maintain 100% uptime and business continuity for its customers, even in the face of an attack. The new solution would need to be capable of mitigating DDoS attacks of up to 300Gbps and 220 million packets-per-second from a single device.

About The Customer

Based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Switch’s award-winning Tier IV Gold SUPERNAP data centers are the highest-ranking colocation data centers in the world and are maintained by the highest-rated mission critical operations teams. With more on-net, independent cloud providers than any other physical cloud gateway, SUPERNAP connects thousands of clients and providers in the most cost-efficient and technologically secure environment worldwide. SUPERNAP is the recognized world leader in colocation design, development and mission critical operations with clients ranging from sophisticated startups to Fortune 100 powerhouses.

The Solution

After conducting an evaluation of various solution providers, Switch selected Radware’s AMS, as it was the most scalable attack mitigation platform on the market and provided defense from the widest array of attack vectors. With Radware’s Attack Mitigation System, Switch can detect, mitigate and scrub nearly every type of cyber-attack with precision and accuracy. Automated attack mitigation allows Switch to mitigate multiple attack vectors simultaneously without their customers experiencing a disruption. The AMS is a behavioral-based real-time signature technology that detects and mitigates emerging network attacks in real time, such as zero-minute attacks, DoS/DDoS attacks, and application misuse attacks—all without the need for human intervention and without blocking legitimate user traffic.

Operational Impact

AMS now defends Switch’s SUPERNAP data centers from attack and is capable of detecting and mitigating all forms of network and application attacks, low and slow, and encrypted attacks.
It has allowed Switch to maintain business continuity for its customers even in the face of volumetric cyber-attacks.
AMS is backed by the added capacity of Radware’s cloud scrubbing service network, which is used to cleanse attack traffic in the event of a volumetric attack.

Quantitative Benefit