MANILA, Philippines – IP Converge Data Services Inc. (IPC), a unit of e-PLDT of dominant carrier Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT), has tapped Hong Kong-based Nexusguard to provide Internet security for its enterprise customers.
Nexusguard vice president for sales and marketing Bill Barry said the partnership would help further strengthen IPC’s product offerings and protect Philippine businesses from what experts consider to be the most costly cybercrime particularly the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
“IPC is a respected technology provider in the Philippines, and it is an honor to partner with such an established organization. This partnership is not only important for our regional efforts, but will serve as a template of success for Nexusguard’s global initiatives,” Barry said.
He said the partnership would enable enterprises in the country to avail of world-class and industry-leading anti-DDoS services with truly localized support with Nexusguard’s technologies and IPC’s market leadership in cloud and data center services.
“It will also set a standard for ISPs in providing future integrated, holistic solutions for DDoS protection,” he added.
Escalating in size and complexity in recent years, he warned that DDoS attacks attempt to prevent a machine or network resource to be accessed by its intended users.
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It is generally comprised of strategies to interrupt services of a host connected to the Internet. DDoS attacks are able to bring down networks and websites for days at a time.
Hackers have launched DDoS attacks for various reasons, such as extortion, revenge, competition, diversion, and politics. Popular DDoS targets over the years have included banks and financial institutions, online gaming sites, credit card payment gateways, and even root name servers.
The partnership with Nexusguard would see IPC providing frontline services to enterprise customers, to properly set up best-practice defense mechanisms and develop mitigation strategies for DDoS.
Barry said Nexusguard would use its experience in mitigating DDoS attacks around the world to provide exceptional tech support and more advanced, highly customizable cloud-based anti-DDoS technologies.
Nexusguard, established in 2008, is an industry-leading Internet security service provider, proven by years of experience mitigating thousands of attacks per month.
On the other hand, IPC – a wholly-owned subsidiary of e-PLDT, is an Internet data center, telecommunications and cloud services company providing local and regional enterprises with managed data services and business solutions at international standards.
