Kaspersky Lab has announced its move into the DDoS (distributed-denial-of-service) space.
Offering a solution designed to protect online services, the Kaspersky DDoS Protection software can be altered in response to the way the attacks are carried out and businesses can adjust and modify the detection and filters to the threat landscape.
The European built and tested solution can filter most of the traffic involved in attacks on the provider’s side, but only if the ISP concerned has a technology partnership agreement with Kaspersky Lab, meaning that only a small amount of highly sophisticated junk traffic needs to be diverted to Kaspersky Lab’s cleaning centers.
Alexander Moiseev, managing director for Europe at Kaspersky Lab, said: “DDoS attacks have no boundaries, with victims ranging from large international companies to small local online stores. Moreover, DDoS is often part of a targeted attack against an organisation, when online services are overloaded to provide a diversion while attackers access critical data. To protect customers from this threat and minimise their losses due to service idle time, we have released Kaspersky DDoS Protection.”
According to Kaspersky Lab, its DDoS intelligence can help ensure that, as well as repelling DDoS attacks, potential threats can be identified at a very early stage. This also makes it possible to adjust system settings as necessary – in real-time – providing customers with reliable protection from financial and reputational risks.
It said that its experts can adjust and modify the detection and filters according to the threat landscape at the time. “This additional level of protection is quickly modifiable and implementable, amplifying the protection offered to customers,” it said.
“By offering customers tailored protection, specific to their own circumstances and risk situation, we can be confident the protection offered is the best.”
Andrew Kellett, principal analyst, security at Ovum, told IT Security Guru that Kaspersky is a late entrant into an already busy market, and it will be coming up against some pretty mature solutions.
Rik Turner, senior analyst at Ovum, said: “From the way it’s written, it would appear to be an on-premise offering rather than in the cloud, in which case it will need to compete on functionality with some of the mavens in the sector such as F5.
“If that is the case, it also means Kaspersky won’t be able to address volumetric attacks, which by their very nature require a cloud-based solution from someone like Akamai or Verizon.”
