The DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Detection and Mitigation by Tata Communications protects India Infrastructure from sophisticated and methodical cyber attacks, the company said in a statement.
A distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users.
Although the means to, motives for, and targets of the attack may vary, it generally consists of the concerted, malevolent efforts of a person to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently or at all, temporarily or indefinitely.
According to a senior official of CERT-In, Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the official watchdog that tracks hacking of government networks a lot of DDoS attacks are being mounted on the Indian websites.
Tata Communications DDoS Detection and Mitigation Security Services provide real-time application-layer analysis of all IP traffic traversing the company's global IP backbone.
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By monitoring and analysing customer traffic in real time and on a 24x7x365 basis, Tata Communications provides proactive notification of actionable events to its customers, improving visibility into the security and availability of their networks and applications.