DDoS attacks protection

Brief

According to a recent report, 60% of the global population, i.e., 4.7 billion people, are online. Our digital world is estimated to be 44 zettabytes, with no risk of unavailable storage thanks to cloud computing.

The proliferation of Information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices affects our broader ecosystem, especially with the uptake of remote working, digital services, e-government services, e-commerce, online education, and more. 

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution gains more ground, we are looking at an era of intelligence and hyperconnectivity. It is predicted that by 2025, there will be 100 billion connections and 40 billion smart devices around the world. 

Based on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, more organizations worldwide will embark on digital transformation journeys, with cloud technology becoming the cornerstone of our future digital economies. This includes domains like public utilities, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and finance. It is predicted that by 2025, 85% of enterprise applications will be on the cloud, and data utilization rates will skyrocket to 80%.

As a leading cloud service provider, Huawei Cloud leverages the company's 30-plus years of deep expertise in the ICT sector. This enables us to provide reliable, secure, and cost-effective cloud services to empower applications, harness the power of data, and help organizations of all sizes grow in today's intelligent world.

Huawei Cloud is the world's fastest-growing major cloud service provider, launching 220+ cloud services and 210+ solutions. News agencies, social media platforms, law enforcement, automobile manufacturers, gene sequencing organizations, and financial institutions benefit significantly from Huawei Cloud. It works with 19,000+ partners and 1.6 million developers, while 4,000+ applications have been launched on the Huawei Cloud Marketplace.

Challenge

Ubiquitous connectivity presents its own unique challenges. Increasingly complex cybersecurity threats and challenges are emerging at an alarming rate as cloud services-related technologies and the wider ICT sector continue to evolve and progress. Cloud security threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated and tricky to tackle. 

Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, a nefarious cyber pandemic gripped our digital world in 2020. The year 2020 reportedly broke all records when it came to cyber breaches and cyber-attacks against organizations, government, and individuals. 

As threats increase, employees are beginning to lose confidence in their organization's cybersecurity posture. 80% of senior IT and IT security leaders believe their organizations lack sufficient protection against cyberattacks despite increased IT security investments made in 2020 to deal with distributed IT and work-from-home challenges, according to IDG Research. 

Phishing attacks, DDoS attacks, malware infections, and ransomware were a few of the top threats haunting every sector and industry. According to a leader in DDoS attack mitigation Qrator Labs, DDoS attacks were on the rise during 2020, with the most relentless attacks described as short and overwhelmingly intensive.

Huawei is increasingly cognizant of these security concerns and attaches high priority, through heavy investment, to technological competency, regulatory compliance, and ecosystem growth in cyber and cloud security. In addition, we work with industry leaders like Qrator Labs to ensure all our cloud customers continue to maintain strong cybersecurity postures.

Solution

In July 2021, the Middle East team of Huawei Cloud worked with Qrator Labs to onboard the Qrator DDoS Protection service onto the Huawei Cloud Marketplace. 

Qrator DDoS Protection is a flexible cloud service for traffic filtering that is designed to detect and effectively mitigate the attacks targeting customer's web infrastructure on all network layers. Qrator DDoS mitigation system employs custom algorithms for traffic analysis, filtering and machine learning which are being constantly updated and expanded in order to be able to counter the latest threats appearing in the global network. The cloud service is based on a set of filtering nodes placed within the platforms of main broadband providers across the globe: North America, South America, Asia, MENA, Western and Eastern Europe. This node-based distributed network is designed to operate in the conditions of extreme load, so the attacks targeting the web resources of one Qrator customer will not affect the performance of other protected services.

Alexander Lyamin, CEO of Qrator Labs, said: "Huawei Cloud is a leading global cloud provider, and we've witnessed first-hand how it has successfully penetrated the Middle East market. We firmly believe that working together brings better results overall. We're proud to be included in the Huawei Cloud Marketplace."

"As a leading managed security service provider, Qrator Labs values its partnership with Huawei Cloud as it allows us to tap into their growing regional and global database of customers. The amount and the intensity of DDoS attacks will only increase. Therefore, almost every resource on the internet should be under some mitigation in case it gets targeted, and Qrator Labs filtering service is one of the most robust solutions in the market today," Alexander Lyamin.

Customer Value

Benefits of Qrator DDoS Protection include:

• Uninterrupted availability of an Internet resource under protection
• Qrator filtering network is a solution accessible for almost every business, starting with SMB and ending with Enterprises
• ~3000Gbps of bandwidth dedicated to DDoS attacks mitigation
• The time needed for the network to learn on a newly connected customer - less than 2 hours
• Time to mitigate DDoS attack - from 30 seconds to 3 minutes
• Added latency when proxying traffic – 0 to 100ms. In case HTTP traffic comes through the proxy, due to the use of persistent HTTP connections with your protected service there is a possibility of improving latency
• No limitation of the number of services or data centers under protection.

Qrator Labs and BI.ZONE, a Russian cybersecurity solutions developer, presented a joint solution for countering DDoS attacks. BI.ZONE company became a certified MSSP-partner (Managed Security Service Provider) of Qrator Labs and began providing DDoS protection services based on the Qrator filtering network for its customers.

The customer is connected to the cloud filtration network as quickly as possible and takes less than two hours. At the same time, in order to counter complex DDoS attacks, the constant participation of qualified client specialists and manual configuration of the solution are not required. In-depth traffic analysis is performed automatically using built-in machine learning algorithms, and information about incidents for any period of service provision is constantly available in your personal account.

Under the terms of the partnership, the entire sales cycle, comprehensive implementation of the Qrator Labs solution and technical support of the first line will be carried out by the BI.ZONE SOC team. Qrator Labs specialists will provide consultations within the second and third lines of defense.

Qrator Labs and Yandex.Cloud, a public cloud platform from Yandex, the Russian Internet company, have developed in the framework of the MSSP partnership the new Yandex DDoS Protection service to protect against DDoS attacks the applications hosted in the cloud infrastructure.
Yandex DDoS Protection gets connected at the moment of creating a cloud resource and is applied to the public IP addresses of virtual machines, network balancers and database hosts hosted in Yandex.Cloud.

Yandex DDoS Protection combines  capabilities of an external Qrator backbone and the equipment located directly in the cloud network. Qrator filtering platforms deployed in the Yandex.Cloud infrastructure guarantee complete cleaning from "garbage" and anomalies of the traffic generated locally in the national Internet  segment . The task to protect cloud resources against the attacks generated in other countries of the world is solved by the Qrator core network having a multi-terabit capacity and a high-performance batch processing capabilities to instantly filter out the most common DDoS attacks.

“The level of requests from our users for  ability to protect their infrastructure in the Cloud is quite high. Realizing this, we prioritize safety. Our cooperation with Qrator Labs allowed us to provide a well-known and popular service of protection against DDoS attacks in the format of the service integrated into the Yandex.Cloud platform and available to the users with one click," commented Oleg Koverznev, Business Development Director of Yandex.Cloud.

GlobalDots, an Israeli integrator in the web- and cloud security systems, has become a strategic partner of Qrator Labs.

GlobalDots has been one of the world's largest independent partners in cloud integration and web performance optimization for over 10 years.

GlobalDots clients are offered a specialized comprehensive solution for protection against the DDoS attacks based on the Qrator filtering network designed for extreme loads.

“GlobalDots has been working with the leading network service providers for many years, selecting only the most professional ones. Thanks to the partnership agreement with Qrator Labs, we were able to expand our portfolio with the DDoS protection service having the filtering algorithms unique to the market. At the moment, we  already actively work together so that to connect as many of our clients as possible to the Qrator network: from small corporate customers to large international companies,” notes Yuval Rachlin,  GlobalDots CEO.

Qrator Labs cooperates with Selectel, the leading Russian provider of cloud and hosting services. 
As part of technological cooperation, Qrator Labs monitors the Internet traffic of the Selectel clients around the clock, detecting the malicious ones, and thus providing a proactive protection against DDoS attacks.

The Internet traffic is monitored on all Selectel infrastructure solutions, including a cloud platform, dedicated servers and the customers' equipment located in the data centers.

“Russia is among the top five countries most frequently targeted by DDoS attacks. The damage  is measured at billions of rubles. Therefore,  proactive protection against cyber threats should be a priority for IT departments and security services of companies with a high level of digitalization. For the Selectel clients, we looked at different providers of anti-DDoS services and settled on Qrator Labs. The company's high reputation and  good results obtained during the tests of its solution allow us to look with optimism at the prospects of our partnership relations,” says Alexander Tugov, Selectel Product Director.

The Qrator Labs solution for DDoS attack protection organically complemented the cloud platform services of the largest Russian system integrator Technoserv which actively develos a stack of cloud services for its customers. In December 2019, the companies also presented an updated comprehensive service for DDoS protection, with a simultaneous use of WAF (Web Application Firewall), focused on the retail demands.

The service allows you to prevent malicious attacks on information systems, the number of such attacks increases during a pre-holiday sales period.

A comprehensive service for DDoS protection in the Technoserv cloud is based on a high-tech Qrator filtering network using a distributed traffic cleaning system and machine learning to recognize threats and automatically counter attacks. In addition, the service, which is one of the most reliable on the market, provides multi-layered protection against failures when protecting against attacks. That is, the internal standard for  duplication of all components is applied not only to the equipment and power supply but also to dedicated communication channels, points and data centers, client connections. The service is suitable for the business whose revenue and reputation  directly depend on the impeccable stability of company's operation.

“In a highly competitive business, DDoS is one of the most common means of unfair combat. We offer a wide range of tools to ensure maximum security of clients' information systems in Technoserv Cloud. A lot of efforts have been made to ensure ability of our protection services to be built-in like bricks  into the solution. For example, the WAF service can be integrated into the system at any time without disrupting its operation. In addition, potential customers can use this simple and convenient solution, for example, only during periods of peak loads on their basic protection system,” said Mikhail Blinov, Head of Technoserv Cloud.

Qrator Labs provides services to counter DDoS attacks and provide stable DNS on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, together with Kcell JSC, the leading mobile operator of Kazakhstan.

Cooperation between Qrator Labs and Kcell makes it possible to provide customer support around the clock, in Kazakh, Russian and English. To protect web resources, there is no need to change the hosting provider or telecom operator: customers have access to a full range of services and all the power of the Qrator Labs backbone.