DDoS Protection – What is a Denial-of-Service Attack?
DDoS attack prevention at the operator level is the most logical and effective solution. SuomiCom offers DDoS protection as an additional service for Pro-level connections. Our backbone equipment filters harmful DDoS traffic from normal traffic, thus protecting our business customers from damage caused by network attacks.
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What is a Denial-of-Service Attack?
A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is a network or service attack designed to incapacitate the target's communication network or service. A DDoS attack can disrupt critical business operations by preventing access to cloud services, such as accounting software or e-commerce platforms.
Increasing Frequency of Denial-of-Service Attacks
To date, the largest DDoS attacks have been in the range of several terabits per second, and the number of complex attacks is increasing annually. This makes it nearly impossible to fend off such attacks without support from an operator.
How to Protect Against Denial-of-Service Attacks
Traditionally, DDoS attacks have been mitigated using firewalls and load balancers. These devices, which are typically installed on the client's premises, traditionally included DDoS protection features. However, these methods are no longer sufficient when a business's communication connections are saturated by a volumetric DDoS attack. Client devices cannot defend against attacks when the available bandwidth is exceeded.
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Why Choose SuomiCom?
We are the first operator in Finland to sign traffic exchange agreements with all three major cloud service providers (Microsoft, Google, and Amazon). Traffic is exchanged in Finland, resulting in a latency of only about one millisecond from SuomiCom's network to these three networks. This benefits customers using the cloud services of these three providers in particular.
SuomiCom continually develops the production environment of broadband and fiber connections to be more energy-efficient. Our total energy consumption in the broadband production environment has decreased for several years thanks to solutions implemented in corporate networks and data centers. We now offer more speed with less electricity consumption.
SuomiCom is one of Finland's most significant traffic carriers
The RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre) published its latest report on the state of the internet in the Nordics in December 2022. Among Finland's largest internet service providers, one traffic carrier stands out: SuomiCom. According to the report, SuomiCom is particularly known as a business operator connecting a significant number of other Finnish networks. This makes it one of the most important traffic carriers in Finland, enabling a wide range of routes...
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