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Foreshore Ensures Zero Downtime to Keep Offshore Clients Online with Peakflow® SP

Company Size

11-200

Region

Europe

Country

United Kingdom

Product

Peakflow SP

Tech Stack

Cisco infrastructure
BGP routing

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Brand Awareness
Customer Satisfaction

Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

System Integration

About The Customer

Foreshore Limited is a leading provider of hosting, messaging, storage, distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection and other Internet services to the offshore business world. Since its inception in 2000, the company has emerged as a trusted service provider, meeting the rigorous 24/7 operational requirements of international banks, major e-retailers and electronic payment providers. Foreshore's non-stop network infrastructure is backed by 100 percent service level agreements and a six-year track record of no downtime. The company is based in the Channel Islands and uses a multi-site Internet backbone to ensure no single points of failure or reliance on any single service provider. Its resilient IP network uses multiple upstream providers and peers, and is based on a Cisco infrastructure and utilizes BGP routing for service delivery to customers.

The Challenge

Foreshore Limited, a leading provider of hosting, messaging, storage, distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection and other Internet services to the offshore business world, needed to maintain 100 percent Internet connectivity to optimize quality of service and enhance traffic engineering. The company’s non-stop network infrastructure is meeting the rigorous 24/7 operational requirements of international banks, major e-retailers and electronic payment providers. Foreshore backs its services with 100 percent service level agreements and a six-year track record of no downtime. In an era of global network security threats that are ever-increasing in size and frequency, DDoS detection and mitigation are critical to Foreshore’s continued success and that of its customers.

The Solution

To help maintain its enviable track record and optimize its customer services, Foreshore relies on the Peakflow® SP (“Peakflow SP”) solution. Peakflow SP delivers the pervasive network visibility, deep application insight and comprehensive threat management to surgically mitigate and report on DDoS and zero-day threats before they impact Foreshore’s business services. This granular visibility is key to Peakflow SP’s ability to provide Foreshore with network-wide, non-intrusive anomaly detection and intelligent mitigation. Peakflow SP learns normal traffic and routing behavior across hundreds of routers and thousands of interfaces and correlates the traffic patterns with the topology data to build logical data models. In addition to relying on Peakflow SP to defend its own network against DDoS attacks, Foreshore uses the system to help deliver managed DDoS detection and mitigation services to customers.

Operational Impact

Peakflow SP delivers pervasive network visibility, deep application insight and comprehensive threat management.
Peakflow SP provides Foreshore with network-wide, non-intrusive anomaly detection and intelligent mitigation.
Foreshore uses Peakflow SP to deliver managed DDoS detection and mitigation services to customers.
Foreshore plans to enhance its managed DDoS detection and mitigation services by implementing Peakflow SP’s new customer-facing DDoS portal over the next year.

Quantitative Benefit