Consejos para la prevención de ataques DDoS

Advice on preventing DDoS attacks

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Distributed denial of service or DDoS attacks can cause important damage and monetary losses to companies. This is why today we’ll share a few words of advice on how to prevent DDoS attacks.

First of all, it’s worth noting that there are a few, more common, targets for attacks of this kind such as internet shopping sites, online casinos and any company or organization that depends on online services.

It’s important to prevent DDoS attacks because they can cause responses to requests in an infrastructure to slow down or even be ignored. In other words, even though a DDoS attack may not affect the infrastructure of a website, it will cause financial losses, in addition to drops in sales and audience unsatisfaction.

Preventing DDoS attacks to networks

Although it is normal to fear potential hacker attacks, it’s also important to pay attention to real traffic from visitors who are genuinely interested in visiting your website. So, let’s discuss a few actions to prevent DDoS attacks.

  1. Acquire an ISP (internet services provider):

Many ISPs offer DDoS attack prevention services, but you have to report the attack so your ISP can respond to the incident. This could mean up to 60 minutes delay for mitigation to begin.

  1. Local system:

One way of preventing these attacks consists in using an intrusion system, firewall technology and specialty hardware. Unfortunately, affected traffic is already in the network taking up valuable bandwidth.

  1. Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN):

This approach to prevent DDoS attacks minimizes corporate infrastructure exposure because IT can keep this infrastructure behind a content delivery network (CDN). If the organization subscribes to DNS and DDoS  mitigation, e-commerce sites, and the company itself can also be protected.

  1. Blackhole Routing:

This is one way to practically end all DDoS attacks. It’s about creating a blackhole route and concentrating all traffic on it. However, this route needs to be created with screening criteria, otherwise all traffic could be directed to that route throughout the entire attack.

  1. Rate limiting:

Rate limiting for a period can be another way to prevent DDoS attacks, although it is not very effective. This action does not keep traffic from performing basic actions, which in turn may lead to longer load time and consequently, to more failures.

  1. Web Application Firewall:

WAF is an effective strategy used in layer 7; in other words, between the internet network and supplier of origin, where WAF acts like a reverse proxy.

  1. Anycast network diffusion:

This approach uses unlimited diffusion to distribute attacking traffic through a network of distributed servers to the point where the network absorbs the traffic.

What tools to choose?

The answer to this question actually depends on both the size and the needs of your business. Nevertheless, preventing DDoS attacks is clearly necessary for company websites with a lot of user interaction.

We are technology partners with Beyond Technology. At NGIN Services we have a team of experts who will help you choose the best option for your site and company. Contact us to get your quotation today.

¿Cómo impulsar tu negocio con soluciones de red?

How to Boost Your Business with Network Solutions?

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We live in an era when communication between customers and companies has become vital, and process automation is key to business growth. However, this essentially depends on the network infrastructure and the network solutions implemented.

The network is the backbone of the company’s everyday operations. Your business depends on this backbone being sound and reliable.

Networks are considered the backbone of a company, making them an increasingly relevant topic for companies that embrace digital transformation as a growth instrument and are, therefore, exposed to different risks.

When your company’s network solutions infrastructure is correctly configured, you have greater speed and connectivity. In turn, this will allow you to boost employee and company performance in general.

Thinking about networks is thinking about maximizing the value of the organization. Therefore, you must have solutions that fit your company’s needs.

Network solutions are necessary to provide customer service, support sales, or other services. Aside from helping increase speed and improve the experience, these solutions reduce latency and other risks for the organization.

This is because not having a good network infrastructure translates into less productivity, poor customer experience, and losses for your company.

Select Network Solutions Experts

At NGIN Services, we help your company take the next step. We are experts in telecommunications, and we work with a holistic scope to provide network solution services. This means our activities comprise all project phases, from beginning to end, resulting in a better customer experience.

Our services include consulting, design, integration, implementation, operation, and support of automated networks.

Thanks to our offering of network solutions, we help you design your company architecture, your business transformation, service automation, and orchestration, as well as strengthen your business IT infrastructure.

As telecommunications experts, we provide custom-made solutions for customers, service providers, companies, and the government.

Our experience is with AAA international companies to whom we provide ISP, transport network, Dcl, wireless LAN, security, virtualization, and automation solutions.

Solutions and Services We Offer

The network solutions and services we provide may include the following use cases:

  • Enterprise Solutions
  • NFV Solutions
  • Distributed Telco Cloud
  • Network Monitoring
  • Disaggregation
  • Network Security
  • Universal Edge
  • Metro Network
  • Open Cloud Interconnect
  • Super Core Architecture

From management to staff productivity and customer satisfaction, all business activities depend upon the network solutions implemented. Reliable network infrastructure is what enables a business to be successful and profitable.

So, if you want to take the next step in your company and develop your IT infrastructure, contact us! At NGIN Services, we have a team of experts who will help you implement the network solutions that your organization needs to keep growing.

¿Qué es la seguridad de la red?

What is Network Security?

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Network security refers to all actions to prevent and protect access, use, and integrity of the network and corporate data.

Digital transformation is already a reality in companies. All companies must protect their data to:

  • Guarantee operation continuity, preventing multi-million losses.
  • Protect customers’ information.
  • Prevent damage to their reputation if their security is compromised.

Network security includes specific protection controls added to a network. However, these controls have evolved (and will continue to do so), as networks do, and the methods come to use by hackers to try to breach security.

Likewise, to guarantee that the best protection controls have been added, we must first understand the environment of threats and vulnerabilities on the network and which controls are available, the solutions, and the correct configurations for your network.

How Does Network Security Work?

 Network security combines multiple layers of defense at the perimeter and on the network, where each layer implements policies and controls. This way, authorized users have access to network resources while malicious users are blocked to prevent, for example, DDoS attacks.

DDoS attacks are still a widely used technique to affect resources and exert pressure on organizations that tend to monetize such attacks. Thus, companies need to have comprehensive network protection strategies.

 Types of Network Security

There are different specialized techniques and types of network security to implement this type of defense in depth:

  • Access Control:

It blocks unauthorized users and devices from the network. It only allows access to users and devices identified as authorized.

  • Antimalware:

This type of network security focuses on the prevention of infections. It aims to stop viruses, Trojans, and worms.

  • Application Security:

If your network tends to access third parties or your own applications, it is essential to protect them to prevent intruders from filtering through them. Protection must be implemented both in hardware and software.

  • Data Loss Prevention:

Because humans are the weakest link in security, it is necessary to implement technologies and processes to ensure employees do not send confidential data outside of the network, whether intentionally or not.

  • E-mail Security:

Pishing is one of the most common ways to access a network. That is why it is essential to have security tools that allow the blockage of incoming messages and the output of confidential data.

  • Firewalls:

They are in charge of building a barrier between your internal, trusted network and external, non-trusted networks, including the Internet. This type of network security uses a set of rules defined to block or allow traffic. Firewalls have significantly evolved; the so-called “new generation” firewalls integrate threat intelligence with other features to offer greater protection to companies.

  • Intruder Detection and Prevention:

These network security systems scan network traffic to identify and block attacks.

  • Security Information and Event Management (SIEM):

These products gather information from different network tools to provide the data needed to identify and respond to threats.

  • VPN:

It is a tool that authenticates communication between a device and a secure network. A VPN for remote access usually uses IPsec, or a layer of secure sockets, to perform this authentication.

  • Web Security:

It aims to control the use of the Internet by internal staff. That is why it controls web use by the team, blocking threats and access to malicious websites.

The best way to go about network security is always to be aware that your company is exposed to being hacked or being a victim of DDoS attacks, which may interrupt or knock over our network and connections, affecting our company’s operations.

NGIN Services’ Network Security solution is a new and revolutionary defense against attacks that enhances network security. It offers real-time line-rate detection and mitigation on a vast scale. Likewise, it always takes advantage of package-level supervision, automated machine analysis, and infrastructure-based application of all network elements.

Contact us! If you are looking for the highest-level solution for business network security,

La importancia del monitoreo de redes para una empresa

The importance of network monitoring in a company

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Network monitoring is one of the responsibilities of a company’s IT department. In other words, optimal monitoring allows a business to potentiate results and obtain different       advantages for the future of a company.

Network monitoring systems include an integration of several software and hardware tools that allow you to track different aspects of the network and how it functions. These systems can therefore detect each element in the network, or that touch it at some point, while also providing status updates.

In the event of a failure in the network it only makes sense to have the tools necessary to face the situation.

For example, starting a session directly on your device is not the best way to detect and resolve an alert situation, nor is it a good idea to grant access to everyone on the team. In addition to its associated risks, it’s an option that doesn’t scale up to expansion equipment.

Evidently, what your company needs is instant access to infrastructure analysis that will allow you to detect, isolate and quickly solve any issue in the network.

Aspects to consider when selecting a network monitoring tool

When selecting a tool for network monitoring it’s important to consider elements that will help you perform early analyses of infrastructure needs for the future and improve IT resources.

  • Functions: Network monitoring tools should satisfy basic monitoring requirements such as bandwidth, availability and use. Observing details like extensive support for common protocols and technologies is also necessary. At the same time, one should consider features that will facilitate use and accessibility like configurable alert notifications, notification functions, and customizable dashboards.
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning: Network monitoring tools also make it possible to incorporate AI and machine learning, because both prosper around data. Thanks to these technologies, monitoring tools can be adapted to the network environment and provide suggestions by considering available data.
  • Automation: makes it possible for monitoring tools to react according to thresholds or sets of rules and/or criteria that need to be met. This will help detect and solve problems automatically.
  • Scope: Network monitoring tools provide comprehensive and detailed visibility that keeps you up to date with the status of the network.
  • Scalability: This is an important feature to consider, particularly now that networks are perpetual. Scalability helps the network keep up with growing productivity, trends, and changing needs. It also guarantees that general performance of the network will not degrade significantly.

Why does your company need it?

Networks are one of the most important elements in any company. If the network should fail and stop transmitting necessary data, the company would stop rendering services which would likely translate into multiple problems that could last even longer than the actual downtime.

Indeed, a network monitoring took will let you potentiate your results and will contribute advantages for the future of your company.

If you’d like to improve your company’s infrastructure analysis via network monitoring tools don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. NGIN Services provides integral and personalized network solutions to every one of our clients. Call us today!