Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 07, 2011

Black Lotus, the market leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection solutions, announced today plans to offer visitors to cPanel Conference in October, an insight into the firm’s powerful new MitigationPro DDoS protection appliances. This announcement follows Black Lotus’ recent appearance at HostingCon 2011, where visitors from around the world learned about the necessity and effectiveness of a robust DDoS protection hardware solution.

“Our MitigationPro DDoS protection demonstration at HostingCon 2011 was designed to be as transparent as possible,” says Jeffrey Lyon, President and CEO at Black Lotus. “We didn’t just want to show people what the hardware looked like and tell them about its advanced mitigation technology – we wanted to physically show people what was going on beneath the surface. We were delighted with the results, and are confident that people came away from HostingCon 2011 understanding the importance of a reliable hardware appliance to protect against DDoS attacks.”

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks cost businesses within the USA millions of dollars a year and are increasing in both prevalence and complexity. Fortunately, a range of solutions are available to protect against potentially crippling attacks by analyzing traffic data. Most commonly, though, these forms of DDoS protection are comprised of x86 Linux servers with custom software that applies a blanket filter in the event of an attack. As a result, any connections passing through the filter are subject to high levels of lag. Consequently, as attack traffic is filtered from the network, the speed at which genuine traffic can pass through the infrastructure effectively grinds to a halt.

“We don’t pretend that there aren’t competing DDoS protection products on the market,” says Lyon. “But our extensive industry experience helps us to ensure that our DDoS protection solutions are the best. MitigationPro is installed in-line and uses IntruGuard’s network behavior analysis, or NBA, to accurately determine an attack in progress. Then, the hardware filters out this traffic from the network quickly, cleanly, and fully, without affecting legitimate traffic. Distinctively, MitigationPro is multi-tenant, ensuring that any traffic that is not perceived to be part of the attack is always served with the high speed that your customers deserve. Best of all, we do all of this at a price point that’s lower than the competition.”

Black Lotus’ MitigationPro DDoS protection network products are undeniably more dependable under the pressure of attack than competing DDoS protection services, with the ability to filter at full line rate with zero performance impact. When the volume of unwanted traffic attempts to breach the capacity of a MitigationPro device, this traffic can be automatically offloaded into the Black Lotus DDoS Mitigation Cloud. Additionally, the comparatively low cost of this hardware cannot fail to impress. MitigationPro products are available in 1G to 5G capacities as standard, with models up to 10G available by special order and, while the industry average for DDoS protection devices is approximately $20,000 to $60,000 per 1G, MitigationPro DDoS protection solutions are available from as little as $11,900. The reduced overhead of implementing a high performance DDoS protection solution gives businesses the opportunity to maximize profits by improving customer retention and exploring new ways of generating revenue.

“We want to give our customers the best possibilities for growth and revenue, and we can do this by keeping our prices low,” says Lyon. “By using MitigationPro DDoS mitigation hardware, businesses can keep themselves and their customers protected from potentially devastating attacks, without compromising network performance or dramatically increasing expenditure. The product and the price speaks for itself and that’s why we are excited to be showing it off again at cPanel Conference 2011. We’re inviting people to visit us on the show floor for a one-on-one demonstration and see for themselves why MitigationPro is the DDoS protection solution they have been looking for.”

With over 10 years experience in DDoS mitigation, Black Lotus has been able to develop a hardware protection solution that meets the demands of companies of all sizes. MitigationPro DDoS protection hardware is capable of defending against multi-gbps attacks, multi-tenanted to sustain high network performance, and available at a price point that is quite simply unmatched. Customers are invited to visit the MitigationPro booth at cPanel Conference 2011 this October 10th-12th, visit http://bootcamp.cpanel.net/ for more conference details, or visit http://www.mitigationpro.com/ to find out more about this robust DDoS protection hardware.

Simply put, MitigationPro is a hardware based filtering solution that performs much like a network switch, moving traffic from point A to point B, efficiently. Our closest competitors are using x86 based servers using custom engineered software packages. These are therefore, software based solutions.

Let’s take a look at the MitigationPro AMP1004:

If you click on the thumbnail you can expand to a full view of the internal components. The board on the left is the management logic which is a Linux based controller and GUI which acts as a command and control for the IntruGuard FPGA on the right. This FPGA is engineered specifically to handle DDoS attack mitigation using network behavior analysis (NBA). Network traffic never touches the management logic. The hard disk stores network behavior which is then used to determine whether or not any given resource is actually under attack and to implement filtering against that resource only. This ensures that other network resources are not subject to any type of filtering and prevents inadvertent blocking and limiting.

Now, let’s compare with a competing device:

This very popular competitor is a software solution running on a small thumb drive, connected to the motherboard inside the chassis. Unlike the MitigationPro which is easily serviceable by removing 3 thumbscrews, this competing device is difficult to open and has several of its screws hidden under a warranty caution sticker. It is clear that they do not want their customers looking inside! A quick inspection of the internal components reveals that the entire device is an x86 based server with Linux based management and filtering. The real bottleneck here is the lack of a FPGA. Instead, attack traffic is being filtered in the server’s CPU which, in our field testing, has caused an inherent performance impact and can even result in severe degradation at higher packet per second (PPS) levels.

So what’s the takeaway?

While there is nothing inherently wrong with filtering attacks in an x86 based Linux server, there are performance and reliability considerations that must be taken into account. We would like to ask you the question: “Would you rather have a software based solution and risk performance impact or would you like to have a hardware based solution at a discount of up to 81%?”

To find out more about protecting your network and tapping into the high demand DDoS protection services market, contact Black Lotus MitigationPro at sales@mitigationpro.com or visit http://www.mitigationpro.com

This year was particularly exciting as we began exhibiting the Black Lotus MitigationPro by IntruGuard for the first time ever. Not only did we put it on display, we removed the lid. You might ask, “Why is this significant?” No other DDoS mitigation vendor is showing off the engine. We’re so confident that MitigationPro is the highest performance DDoS mitigation appliance on the market that we’re showing our friends, customers, and fellow vendors exactly why. Hemant Jain of IntruGuard Devices, our manufacturing partner, was also on hand to assist in giving technical demonstrations and Q&A sessions.

Almost forgot: MitigationPro is not only the highest performance DDoS mitigation appliance available on the market, but also the lowest cost with an entry point starting at below $12,000 per 1G. Our competitors are offering inferior technology at price points of $20,000 – 60,000 per 1G. At these rates, your capital expenditures could easily reach over $1M for even a small network!

On August 9th and 10th, we gave our guests a first hand look at the technology, keeping our message very simple:

- MitigationPro is available in 1G and 5G to 10G models (by special order), filtering at full line rate without performance impact. Network traffic is switched transparently on a custom engineered FPGA, allowing DDoS mitigation to occur with maximum efficiency. Network traffic never touches the management logic allowing MitigationPro to stay resilient during even the worst of attacks. Our competition begins to lag as traffic increases, especially during complex attacks.

- Black Lotus leverages IntruGuard Device’s network behavior analysis (NBA) to mitigate DDoS attacks at Layer 3 through Layer 7, ensuring zero false positives. This is accomplished through a unique method of inspection where network behavior is stored and attacks are compared against historical behavior. When fine tuned thresholds are breached, DDoS mitigation rules are applied to filter traffic only against the resource under attack.

- MitigationPro is a multi-tenant appliance. Competing appliances apply the same rate limits and signature based mitigation rules to all traffic. This has a tendency to cause false positives and degraded performance across the network. MitigationPro only filters resources that are known to be under attack.

- Black Lotus offers the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) by selling DDoS mitigation appliances as low as 81% less than our nearest competitors, while providing full management preventing your company from needing to have experts on hand or allocate additional human capital to solution management. MitigationPro is even 25% less expensive than other IntruGuard appliances.

- With the Hybrid DDoS Mitigation Solution, a benefit unique to Black Lotus, you own your DDoS mitigation infrastructure, however, Black Lotus provides optional full management and remote DDoS attack and network health monitoring. When predefined alert criteria is met, Black Lotus will execute your emergency action plan and, if required, will offload multi-10G DDoS attacks to the Black Lotus DDoS Mitigation Cloud via load balance proxy or generic route encapsulation (GRE) tunnel.

Ping! Zine released a comprehensive review of MitigationPro in their HostingCon issue which was available at the convention, noting that MitigationPro:

“… is powerful, reliable hardware that works within existing infrastructures to provide robust DDoS defense. In tandem with the possibilities of the Black Lotus Cloud, MitigationPro is part of a hybrid solution that could save your server from devastating damage.”

To learn more about MitigationPro and the Hybrid DDoS Mitigation Solution, contact us at sales@mitigationpro.com or visit http://www.mitigationpro.com

If you’re familiar with Black Lotus, you know that we literally pioneered the first commercially available DDoS mitigation service 8 years ago and continue to lead the market, innovating new DDoS mitigation technologies. Two years ago we invented the human behavior analysis technique for detecting and mitigating low and slow HTTP GET attacks. Just last month on World IPv6 Day we became the world’s first IPv6 enabled DDoS mitigation service.

In the past few years DDoS attacks have been growing exponentially in terms of size, severity, and frequency. Today, more and more companies are turning to DDoS protected hosting providers to mitigate this growing threat. If you’re not offering a DDoS protected service, you’re likely losing customers to better prepared competitors.

The Hybrid DDoS Mitigation Solution enables hosting providers to mitigate DDoS attacks on their own network via a fully managed MitigationPro DDoS mitigation appliance. When attacks exceed capacity of the appliance, instead of dropping more and more of your hard earned cash on additional infrastructure you’ll rely on Black Lotus to automatically route additional DDoS mitigation capacity by filtering attacks up to multi-10G at our Los Angeles based DDoS Mitigation Cloud, keeping load off of your network while protecting your customers.

Achieving ROI is simple. When you protect your customers from DDoS attacks, you facilitate retention and earn larger margins. Additionally:

The MitigationPro appliance is up to 61% less expensive than its nearest competitors, making it the lowest cost DDoS mitigation hardware on the market today.

Unlike competing devices, MitigationPro is a highly efficient hardware platform, forwarding packets in ASICs to achieve full line rate filtering.

Our fully managed licensing model prevents you from having to learn new technologies or hire additional engineers. Ownership is easy and painless.

Optionally, the Black Lotus NOC will monitor your network for attacks, responding in less than 5 minutes, 24/7/365, and begin to immediately combat the attack on your behalf.

Interested in learning more? Visit us at HostingCon 2011 in San Diego, CA on August 8th through 10th!

DDoS protection specialists Black Lotus launches IPv6 services to customers in preparation for the transition to IPv6.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 01, 2011

Black Lotus, the market leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, announces its plans to launch IPv6 support for their websites as part of World IPv6 day on June 8, 2011. With companies worldwide taking the opportunity to test their IPv6 infrastructure, Black Lotus will be pledging their support for IPv6 development and offering their customers the chance to make use of this significant new technology.

“We are pleased to join with the rest of the Internet community as part of World IPv6 Day this year, marking the first phase of our own IPv6 initiatives,” says Jeffrey Lyon, President and CEO at Black Lotus. “As well as making the technology available to our customers, we will continue our ongoing development to IPv6 support across all of our DDoS protection services. The transition to IPv6 is an important process in the ongoing development of the Internet and we are incredibly proud to be pioneering this new technology.”

Currently, the market penetration of IPv6 is light, with the vast majority of websites depending upon the IPv4 technology that has been in use since 1981. However, as the number of websites on the Internet begins to call for more addresses than IPv4 can supply, the development of IPv6 support is becoming vital in the continued growth and reliability of the Internet infrastructure. World IPv6 Day is an event designed to encourage the Internet community to consider their future and to make provisions for a global transition to IPv6. Black Lotus is helping to spearhead this campaign through demonstrating their ongoing commitment.

“We understand that the first step in migrating to IPv6 is embracing the technology and making use of it across our own websites,” says Lyon. “To that end, we will be offering our customers a /64 IPv6 prefix following our World IPv6 Day participation. Of course, we are also taking advantage of the chance to develop new DDoS mitigation technology to defend against the evolving threat of DDoS attacks across IPv6. As the world of technology develops, we ensure that our protection systems develop accordingly.”

Offering a range of competitively priced, highly reliable DDoS protection services, Black Lotus has established itself as the market leader in DDoS mitigation technology. In a DDoS attack, an attacker overloads a website with simultaneous traffic from multiple computers, resulting in a loss of server responsiveness and, eventually, extended periods of website unavailability. The potential consequences are devastating, not only as a result of lost customers and revenue during downtime, but also in the long-term effect upon the reputation of a company. As websites begin to transition to IPv6, Lyon is certain that DDoS attackers will develop new, even more complex attack methods.

“There is no doubt that as the community adopts IPv6 as a standard, attackers will modify their DDoS attacks to match,” says Lyon. “We pledge our ongoing commitment to robust DDoS protection services so website owners are confident that their web presence will always be ready to effectively accept and process incoming traffic. IPv6 is an exciting opportunity for the Internet to evolve itself to the next stage and should not become a reason to fear for the security and stability of our infrastructure. Making use of our extensive DDoS mitigation experience, we will be among the first to offer next-generation protection to suit the next generation of websites.”

Black Lotus DDoS protection is the most reliable mitigation solution in the world and as the world begins to use IPv6, Black Lotus will continue to offer secure and affordable protection as a standard service. Beginning with their important involvement in World IPv6 Day, Black Lotus is working to roll out IPv6 services, and as DDoS attacks over IPv6 become more prevalent, Black Lotus will be ready as the Internet’s first line of defense.

About Black Lotus

Black Lotus has been providing robust and cost effective DDoS protection solutions since 1999. As the first and leading DDoS protection services company, Black Lotus stops robots in their tracks with advanced distributed denial of service protection delivering enterprise grade solutions at a fraction of the cost. The Black Lotus Enterprise network is the only purpose-built DDoS protected hosting network designed to combat distributed denial of service attacks from the ground up utilizing 100% premium name brand bandwidth. Black Lotus delivers hundreds of billions of packets safely to their destination each month. ]]> http://www.blacklotus.net/2011/06/01/black-lotus-pledges-support-to-world-ipv6-day-with-ipv6-ddos-protection-services/feed/ 0 http://www.blacklotus.net/2011/02/02/black-lotus-launches-new-mitigationpro-ddos-protection-network-appliances-website/ http://www.blacklotus.net/2011/02/02/black-lotus-launches-new-mitigationpro-ddos-protection-network-appliances-website/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:57:37 +0000 admin http://www.blacklotus.net/blog/?p=129 Continue reading →]]>

Black Lotus launches new MitigationPro website showcasing DDoS protection network appliances and DDoS protection services for data centers, hosting companies, and service providers.

Virginia Beach, VA (Vocus/PRWEB) February 02, 2011

Black Lotus, a leading distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection services company, announced today the launch of a new website, MitigationPro (http://www.mitigationpro.com). MitigationPro provides detailed information to hosting providers, data centers, ISPs, and other companies on Black Lotus’s new line of MitigationPro network behavior analysis and DDoS network protection appliances by IntruGuard. The new MitigationPro website educates visitors and customers on how to protect their networks with Black Lotus MitigationPro DDoS protection capabilities, products, and services.

“The new MitigationPro website showcases a full suite of Black Lotus MitigationPro DDoS protection service offerings, DDoS protection products, service specifications, and DDoS protection features specifically engineered for ISPs, hosting companies, data centers, and other service providers,” says Jeffrey Lyon, Director of Black Lotus. “The new MitigationPro website was developed exclusively for customers who want to protect their networks. And the new MitigationPro website is ideal for potential DDoS protection services partners to become acquainted with Black Lotus MitigationPro DDoS protection network appliances benefits and service plans.”

Black Lotus MitigationPro by IntruGuard showcases DDoS protection network appliances that help service providers defeat the toughest and most complex DDoS attacks typically experienced in today’s networks. Black Lotus and MitigationPro’s combined products and services help businesses maintain availability and business continuity by identifying and mitigating potential DDoS attacks, while allowing legitimate traffic to flow through the network. By launching a new MitigationPro website, Black Lotus provides an easy and convenient way for data centers, hosting companies, and service providers to purchase MitigationPro DDoS protection appliances so they can fully protect their networks from malicious DDoS attacks.

“MitigationPro is the ultimate DDoS protection solution as it blends leading DDoS mitigation technology in a box with Black Lotus’ extensive engineering and DDoS protection expertise, offered at a much lower price than other leading DDoS mitigation products and services,” says Lyon. “By deploying MitigationPro DDoS protection solutions, data centers, ISPs, and hosting providers can integrate Black Lotus protection technology and expertise into their existing products and services, ensuring the best possible network protection against harmful DDoS attacks and related botnet abuses.”

When purchasing MitigationPro DDoS network protection products, customers are given the option to purchase a SupportPro service contract that covers initial installation, ongoing maintenance, real time mitigation of DDoS attacks, and hardware warranty. Customers ordering a MitigationPro appliance through the new website can also configure their DDoS network protection appliance by selecting the SupportPro plan they want to use to get the most comprehensive support plan and help with their MitigationPro appliance. Black Lotus and MitigationPro have made it easy to order DDoS network appliances and the process only takes a few minutes to complete.

“MitigationPro website visitors can find the exact DDoS protection appliance they need to protect their networks from malicious DDoS attacks,” says Lyon. “Once a specific network appliance is selected, a description window pops up, providing detailed information on each MitigationPro DDoS protection network appliance model. These detailed product descriptions are designed to help customers find the MitigationPro model that best suits their needs. Once customers find the exact DDoS protection network appliance model they are looking for, they can click the order button to continue the ordering process. The entire order and purchase process is very easy and painless.”

Black Lotus MitigationPro is the most affordable DDoS protection network appliance available on the market today. By purchasing a MitigationPro appliances and Black Lotus services bundle, customers will equip their businesses with high-performance, continuous, and fully managed DDoS protection that will allow them to save hundreds or even thousands of dollars, while maximizing uptime during malicious DDoS attacks.

About MitigationPro

Black Lotus MitigationPro by IntruGuard provides leading distributed denial of service protection and network behavior analysis appliances designed specifically for Internet service, ISPs, data centers, and hosting providers who require maximum protection from today’s tough multi-Gbps DDoS attacks. MitigationPro enables service providers to defeat large and complex DDoS attacks such as HTTP GET and POST, SYN floods, UDP floods, packet fragmentation, source and destination floods, and spoofed packets at Layer 2 through 7. Equipped with state-of-the-art DDoS fighting algorithms, MitigationPro DDoS protection network products are capable of detecting and blocking attacks within 2 seconds and have up to 2000 Mbps half duplex and 3,000,000 packets per second filtering capacity. MitigationPro DDoS protection network appliances include four to eight virtual identifiers (VIDs) with up to 512 networks per identifier to support a wide variety of filtering profiles resulting in better performance and more uptime. Black Lotus MitigationPro is a cost-effective, value-add, managed DDoS solution offered in partnership with IntruGuard Devices.

For more information about MitigationPro, visit http://www.mitigationpro.com/. ]]> http://www.blacklotus.net/2011/02/02/black-lotus-launches-new-mitigationpro-ddos-protection-network-appliances-website/feed/ 0 http://www.blacklotus.net/2010/11/17/leveraging-global-dns-infrastructure-to-support-ddos-mitigation/ http://www.blacklotus.net/2010/11/17/leveraging-global-dns-infrastructure-to-support-ddos-mitigation/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:47:49 +0000 admin http://www.blacklotus.net/blog/?p=126 Continue reading →]]> Interview with John Kane of Afilias and Jeffrey Lyon of Black Lotus

By WHIR TV on September 07, 2010

At HostingCon 2010, in Austin, Texas, WHIR editor in chief Liam Eagle spent some time in the exhibit hall, talking to some of the companies on hand about their offerings, as well as their plans for HostingCon.

We produced a couple of “WHIR TV at HostingCon” segments from that footage, and those have gone up on the site in the last few weeks. You can check them out here and here.

While we were visiting the exhibit area, we also had an opportunity to meet up with John Kane, VP of corporate services at DNS service provider Afilias and Jeffrey Lyon, president and CEO at DDoS protection company Black Lotus.

The two discussed their recent partnership (a relationship that developed out of a meeting at HostingCon 2009), and the ways in which Afilias’s DNS products are able to support Black Lotus’s technology.

Click here to watch the interview on WHIR TV .

“ServerOrigin prides itself in creative partnerships that provide more ROI for our customers,” says Kevin Hatfield, Director of Operations of ServerOrigin. “Denial-of-service is becoming a fast growing problem with average attack sizes increasing every year. The partnership with Black Lotus allows us to take advantage of the knowledge and expertise that has made Black Lotus the well-known brand that it is today. By working together with Black Lotus, we are mixing two of the best brands in the DDoS protection host industry to create a service where the customer truly benefits in terms of service and price for DDoS protected hosting services.”

Black Lotus has officially named ServerOrigin as a Solutions Partner. ServerOrigin will be using Black Lotus’ new MitigationPro appliances by IntruGuard – network behavior analysis appliances designed to stop DDoS attacks. ServerOrigin will also receive IP connectivity from the Black Lotus network in Los Angeles. ServerOrigin will combine internal, proprietary filtering technology and experience with commercially available DDoS protection solutions from Black Lotus.

“Building a network resilient to large-scale DDoS attacks is a tremendous challenge,” says Hatfield. “It requires vast experience, a significant investment, and ongoing upkeep in order to remain stable in the face of multi-Gbps attacks. This is where both the Black Lotus network and MitigationPro appliances shine. Black Lotus has already made a big investment and their infrastructure is a solid building block for us to continue our DDoS protection hosting business while allowing Black Lotus to do what they do best.”

An experienced and trusted DDoS protection host, Black Lotus has been providing DDoS protection services at every level, from DDoS protected dedicated servers to colocation, web hosting DDoS protection, and LotusCloud VM to prevent DDoS attacks. Black Lotus’s DDoS protection network is capable of multi-gigabit DDoS mitigation and can process millions of packets per second from every type of known attack.

“As an industry pioneer, Black Lotus brings over 10 years of DDoS mitigation experience to ServerOrigin in order to allow them to continue their rapid growth as one of the emerging leaders in the DDoS mitigated hosting and protection industry,” says Jeffrey Lyon, Director of Black Lotus. “Black Lotus MitigationPro appliances will allow ServerOrigin to provide DDoS protection hosting services at a savings of at least 53%. This savings can then be passed on to ServerOrigin customers.”

The Black Lotus/ServerOrigin partnership will leverage synergies between Black Lotus technology and ServerOrigin DDoS hosting solutions to market distributed denial of service protection more efficiently and cost effectively, resulting in an improved customer experience. The Black Lotus MitigationPro DDoS platform will also allow Black Lotus and ServerOrigin to work in tandem to defeat new, zero day attacks and botnets.

About ServerOrigin

ServerOrigin Communications specializes in Enterprise-Grade denial-of-service mitigation and hosting. ServerOrigin ranks among the largest deployed denial-of-service protection providers worldwide. ServerOrigin’s primary business is based on their ethProxy Mitigation product. Services include CDN-based denial-of-service mitigation, AnyCast DNS, and intrusion detection. ServerOrigin utilizes more than 30 POP locations in the United States and is the premium solution for companies seeking 99.999% service levels with protection against large-scale denial-of-service and intrusion-based attacks. Since its founding in 2006, mitigation provider ServerOrigin Communications has protected more than 1,000,000 domains worldwide. ServerOrigin’s ethProxy clients include Paymate, Sun Microsystems, Lillian Vernon, Above.Com, Hair Club for Men, and Staples.

For more information about ServerOrigin, visit http://www.serverorigin.com.

About Black Lotus

Black Lotus has been providing robust and cost effective DDoS protection solutions since 1999. As the first and leading DDoS protection services company, Black Lotus stops robots in their tracks with advanced distributed denial of service protection delivering enterprise grade solutions at a fraction of the cost. The Black Lotus Enterprise network is the only purpose-built DDoS protected hosting network designed to combat distributed denial of service attacks from the ground up utilizing 100% premium name brand bandwidth. Black Lotus delivers hundreds of billions of packets safely to their destination each month.

For more information about Black Lotus, visit http://www.blacklotus.net.

We took this opportunity to discuss our upcoming public release of the Black Lotus MitigationPro by IntruGuard, a distributed denial of service and network behavior analysis appliance that will be publicly released in September. Last year attendees expressed interest in a Black Lotus branded appliance to enable them to take advantage of the Black Lotus protection on their own network. We listened! 3,000,000 packets per second and 1000 Mbps of DDoS protection is now available to the general public at a price point of less than $12,000 per appliance. Even better, our appliances are bundled with comprehensive service contracts managed by Black Lotus’ renowned CCNA/CCNP, JNCIS, and ICDME certified network engineers. Owning a MitigationPro is like having your own DDoS protection engineers on staff.During the show we spoke with hundreds of attendees in depth about their DDoS protection needs and concerns and how Black Lotus solutions will increase their security and viability while helping manage the bottom line. We were interviewed by Ping! Zine and The WHIR, two of the most prominent media outlets in the web hosting industry.    

If you missed us this time you can also find us at the following venues:    

   ]]> http://www.blacklotus.net/2010/08/26/meeting-and-greeting-at-hostingcon-2010/feed/ 0 http://www.blacklotus.net/2010/07/19/blacklotus-selects-afilias-to-improve-dns-reliability/ http://www.blacklotus.net/2010/07/19/blacklotus-selects-afilias-to-improve-dns-reliability/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:26:12 +0000 admin http://www.blacklotus.net/blog/?p=103 Continue reading →]]> DDoS protection vendor gets better value with Afilias as its new managed DNS provider

AUSTIN, Texas (HOSTINGCON) – 19 July 2010 – Afilias, a leading provider of Internet infrastructure services, announced that Black Lotus Communications has selected Afilias’ FlexDNS^SM Platform to provide DNS infrastructure in support of its distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection solutions. Black Lotus needed to replace its previous DNS provider in order to improve its resiliency to DDoS attacks and achieve better economy in its DNS management.

“Outsourcing our DNS allows us to focus on our core competencies and leverage numerous off-site nodes to discourage DDoS attacks against our name resolution infrastructure,” said Jeffrey Lyon, President of Black Lotus. “Since switching to Afilias, we were able to cut our costs by more than 50 percent and receive more value for about the same cost of running our own off-site nodes.”

Afilias’ FlexDNS Platform provides three different ways to utilize Afilias’ DNS network: A Web-based portal, AXFR (DNS zone transfer), or an Application Programming Interface (API). Black Lotus selected Afilias’ Web-based portal, which provides a simple, easy-to-use online interface to manage DNS settings for small or large portfolios of domains. The Web-portal also provides bulk import functionality, an advanced reporting suite, and enhanced security alerts and notifications.

Black Lotus also selected Afilias’ SiteCertain^TM IP monitoring and failover service to ensure that their customers will always have a working IP address to failover to incase of emergency or compromise.

“Any organization that is providing critical services across the Internet needs to take their DNS seriously and ensure that they avoid single points of failure,” said John Kane, Vice President of Corporate Services for Afilias. “We are pleased to provide Black Lotus with both a valuable and cost-effective DNS solution to enhance the resiliency and reliability of their important DDoS protection services.”

About Afilias Managed DNS Services

Afilias’ state of the art DNS network ensures security and resiliency through a diverse any-cast architecture. Its multi-layered, tiered design uses multiple hardware and software solutions, multiple bandwidth providers, and is dispersed across numerous geographic locations, ensuring no single points of failure and 100 percent up-time, guaranteed. Afilias’ system also supports DNSSEC. To learn more about Afilias’ FlexDNS platform visitwww.flexDNS.info

About Black Lotus (HOSTINGCON Booth #101)

Black Lotus Communications is first and leading in distributed denial-of-service protection solutions. The company was the first to market a commercially viable DDoS protection solution and provides protected hosting services, web proxies, IP tunnels, and the ecologically friendly LotusCloud VM, a dedicated server environment that is 16 times more efficient than its bare metal counterpart. For more information visit www.blacklotus.net

About Afilias (HOSTINGCON Booth #535)

Afilias is a global provider of Internet infrastructure services that connect people to their data. Afilias’ reliable, secure, scalable, and globally available technology supports a wide range of applications including Internet domain registry services, Managed DNS, and services in the RFID and supply chain market with its Afilias Discovery Services. For more information on Afilias please visit http://www.afilias.info.