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Sunnyvale, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - October 26, 2006 - Web hosting provider, Planeetta Internet Oy, has chosen distributed denial of service (DDoS) Firewall security appliance firm’s IG200 DDoS Firewall solution, to serve its over 5000 customers.

After reviewing their current signature based Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and evaluating several other IPS solutions available on the market, Planeetta selected the IG200 to protect its customer maintained servers and network operation center (NOC) from a growing threat of DDoS attacks, protocol anomaly based hacking, scans and other zero-day exploits. Such network floods were occurring on a monthly basis and with only a narrow based DDoS attack on just one customer; connectivity to other accounts was hampered. The existing IPS device was overtaken with flood traffic and failed. Prior to the IntruGuard deployment, Planeetta took a painstaking effort with their Internet Service Provider to determine all sources of attack and instituted ACLs to block the assault. This method took many hours to bring the attack under control.

Lauri Pitkanen, Chief Security Officer and Co-founder at Planeetta explained, ”Compared to other solutions available on the market, the IG200 was the clear choice because of its split-second automated response, full duplex Fast Ethernet throughput, software upgrade capability to gigabit throughput, and ease of administration and monitoring. The ability to create virtual protection zones using the Virtual Identifier (VID) feature in the IG200 was extremely powerful and allowed us to separate our operations center from customer servers. We use the IG200 to block denial of service network floods targeting an individual customer where such an attack affects all customers. Since its installation, the IG200 has successfully thwarted several attacks and helped us trace the source of each.”

Ashok Jain, CEO of IntruGuard Devices, Inc. commented, ”Web Hosting has to go on un-interrupted. Companies like Planeetta, that understand the value of their customers’ trust, are quickly realizing the IG product family can help them keep their wide-ranging services on-line at all times and maintain mandatory service level agreements.”

Planeetta Internet Oy is a provider of web hosting services in Europe, serving over 5000 customers with an excess of 50 servers in its data center. Thorough security services include protection against worms, viruses, spyware, and other malicious attacks to protect their operations. Services include web site and email support. The company is located in Helsinki, Finland.

IntruGuard’s mission is to secure high-value Internet services and network infrastructure by delivering built-for-purpose systems for Intrusion and Day Zero DoS and DDoS Attack Prevention. The company serves e-commerce, web hosting/ISP, financial institutions, and managed service providers that are under pressure to deliver guaranteed network and application performance under all conditions. IntruGuard’s IG200, IG2000, and IG2200 DDoS Firewall security appliances will defeat any intruder attempting to mount a rate-based attack on servers, subnets or networks. These appliances deliver maximum performance, intelligence, and ease of deployment. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

To learn more about IntruGuard, please visit: www.intruguarddevices.com.

For more information about Planeetta Internet Oy, please visit: www.planeetta.net/.

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