Security Win: $2M Wireless Tier1 Deal for Radware's Attack Mitigation System

  
A year ago Yankee Group predicted that - "A Denial-of-Service Attack Will Take a 4G Network Down"(here) saying  that "With clean-up costs (including the network, IT, customer care, media relations, etc.), fewer new subscriptions and increased churn, the bill for this DoS outage will be a minimum of U.S.$10 million in the first month alone .. The winners include vendors like Arbor Networks and Radware that help operators address these issues. But equipment vendors like Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), Cisco, Ericsson and Huawei will also be called on to assist, as will their professional services organizations".

   

One year after that, Radware announced a "a $2 million sale of its Attack Mitigation System (AMS) security solution to a leading Tier 1 wireless carrier in North America .. Radware's AMS solution will integrate the carrier's existing point security capabilities - such as firewall and proxy protection, signature-based intrusion prevention, anti-spam gateways and scrubbing center denial of service mitigation - into an holistic attack mitigation system."

"Radware's AMS is a real-time network and application attack mitigation solution that protects the application infrastructure against network and application downtime, application vulnerability exploitation, malware spread, information theft, Web service attacks and Web defacement. It contains a protection layer with security modules including denial-of-service (DoS) protection, network behavioral analysis (NBA), intrusion prevention system (IPS), reputation engine and Web application firewall (WAF) to fully safeguard networks, servers and applications against known and emerging network security threats"

See "Radware to Deliver Attack Mitigation System Solution To Tier 1 Wireless Carrier in North America" - here.

See also "[Juniper] Anomaly Detection and DPI Defend Against Application-Layer DDoS"- here and "NetScout: "Outages at NTT, AT&T and Verizon could have been detected and averted" - here.

DPI/Security Deployments [98]: Mobinil [Egypt] Deployed HP Tipping Point to Increase Network Availability

  

HP announced that "Mobinil, Egypt’s leading wireless service provider, has selected HP TippingPoint solutions to boost network reliability and security for its 30 million customers .. Mobinil selected HP TippingPoint S5100N IPS and HP TippingPoint Core Controller platforms to deliver real-time proactive inline protection for its distributed data centers and network infrastructure".



Source: Mobinil Presentation

Mobinil had over 31M wireless and 240K broadband DSL subscribers at the end of Q3, 2011 (see chart).

".. HP TippingPoint IPS detects and blocks trojans, viruses, worms or any potentially damaging network events that could slow down operations, threaten service quality or cause customer downtime .. By constantly cleaning Mobinil’s networks of malicious and unwanted traffic, HP TippingPoint IPS has improved network performance of mission-critical applications. HP TippingPoint IPS devices form a secure, expandable application platform that allows Mobinil to support future growth. In addition, the HP TippingPoint IPS platform has increased network availability and slashed problem resolution times, creating a more productive IT environment".

TippingPoint was acquired by 3Com in 2005 (here), and became part of HP after the 3Com acquistion in 2009.

The TippingPoint S5100N IPS ".. employs a new TSE [threat suppression engine]to keep pace with the changing threats and evolving demands of today's enterprise networks and data centers. The TSE architecture utilizes custom ASICs and high-performance network processors to perform total packet flow inspection at Layers 2-7, performing thousands of checks on each packet flow simultaneously, and delivering a significant deep-packet inspection capacity increase to support new and future security services".

See "HP Boosts Network Security, Reliability for Egypt’s Leading Mobile Service Operator -
Mobinil protects users against online threats, ensures service levels with HP TippingPoint security solutions" - here.