Neustar expands cyberdefence mitigation network to Sydney

Neustar, a neutral provider of real-time information services and cloud-based digital performance and defence solutions, has launched a new Internet traffic scrubbing centre in Sydney, Australia. The move enables Australian clients to have access to end-to-end protection and acceleration. 

The scrubbing centre has been deployed in collaboration with Arbor Networks and Limelight Networks to deliver a cloud-based cyberdefence and content delivery network worldwide.

“Our new state-of-the-art Sydney scrubbing centre demonstrates our commitment to offering our clients the capacity and technology needed to mitigate web application and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that are now a regular part of the cyberthreat landscape,” said Shailesh Shukla, GM of Digital Defence and Performance solutions, Neustar. 

“Sydney was strategically selected to maximise protection against global attack traffic, containing private traffic within Australia, and mitigating attacks close to the origin, while preventing internet saturation.”

The Sydney node strengthens the Neustar DDoS scrubbing capacity which is currently at 10 Tbps worldwide. With the new scrubbing centre, clients in Australia have access to complete end-to-end protection and acceleration, offering enterprise-grade web application firewall (WAF) and DDoS defence solutions, with optional integrated content delivery (CDN) capabilities. 

Rodney Joffe, Neustar Senior VP, Fellow and National Security Executive commented, “DDoS attacks are increasing in size and sophistication, and this means we need to continually increase capacity to ensure our customers’ critical data and services are safeguarded. Australian organisations need to be secure in the knowledge that their business will not be disrupted by malicious attacks, similar to the massive Memcached amplification attack which impacted thousands of businesses across the world in February this year.”

Neustar SiteProtect NG, a cloud-based DDoS mitigation network, breaks with the tradition of designing network protection that makes use of a high volume of small scrubbing centres. Instead, the SiteProtect NG network includes large, full scale nodes, each with massive scrubbing capacity. These centres are strategically positioned throughout the world’s Internet backbone to provide protection.