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Technical talk with BlackLotus specialized Engineers.

Posted on August 18, 2011 by admin

Comparing Engines – MitigationPro vs. The Competition

Yesterday we talked about how the Black Lotus MitigationPro by IntruGuard leverages a custom engineered FPGA to mitigate DDoS attacks at full line rate, without performance impact. Today, we’ll go into further depth. 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 … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 17, 2011 by admin

Under the hood of the MitigationPro at HostingCon 2011

We’re just now recovering from another exhausting, yet rewarding and busy week at HostingCon 2011. This event is always full of fast paced, high impact networking and a ton of exhibits featuring the latest in hosting technology. 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 … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 1, 2011 by admin

Black Lotus Pledges Support to World IPv6 Day with IPv6 DDoS Protection Services

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, … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 26, 2009 by admin

The undetectable DDoS

For several years HTTP GET attacks have plagued web hosts with an extremely frustrating problem. These attacks are “low and slow” in the sense that only a few connections can slip through a network firewall or DDoS filter, cause a web server to respond to the seemingly valid request, and then generate hundreds of megabits or even gigabits of egress bandwidth utilization. Traditionally the common response to this was to either null route the IP and hope the problem goes away, try to filter each IP by hand which requires many hours or even days plus a functional understanding of iptables, or perhaps as a last ditch effort the services of a DDoS mitigation provider like Black Lotus. The latter has been extremely popular in recent days as a new variant of this attack has been detected in the wild. … Continue reading →

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