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Prolexic Selected for DDoS Mitigation Services by Australia’s Number One Job Search Website
March 2013 by Marc Jacob
Prolexic announced that Seek.com.au, Australia’s employment website, has selected Prolexic to provide DDoS detection and DDoS protection services. With 21 million site visitors each month, the Australian owned and operated website provides access to information on 120,000 jobs, as well as current insights into local labor markets and research on employment trends.
Recently, Seek.com.au was hit by a Layer 7 (application layer) distributed denial of service attack that rendered the site’s extensive job search data and services inaccessible. As an insurance policy against downtime caused by future attacks, SEEK chose Prolexic to provide DDoS mitigation services.
Since signing on as a Prolexic client, Prolexic has worked with SEEK to create a pre-rehearsed DDoS mitigation plan or playbook of defensive actions to be taken as soon as a DDoS attack is detected. As a result, SEEK now has a proven DDoS mitigation plan in place with Prolexic as its first line of defense. While SEEK has not needed to use Prolexic’s DDoS mitigation service yet, management has taken advantage of other benefits of being a Prolexic customer.
