With Cisco's applicance, The Planet aims to prevent DDoS attacks by performing per-flow-level attack analysis, identification, and mitigation to block specific attack traffic.

The Planet, a provider of hosting and Internet services, announced today the deployment of the Cisco Guard XT 5650 DDoS Mitigation Appliance from Cisco Systems.

With the multi-gigabit performance of the Cisco Guard XT 5650 solution, The Planet will be able to better protect all of its customers from distributed denial-of-service attacks by performing per-flow-level attack analysis, identification, and mitigation to block specific attack traffic, claims the company.

"We've seen an increase in the overall number of attacks, as well as flood attack methods becoming more complex," said John Bradberry, Director of Information Security at The Planet. "The Cisco Guard solution helps protect our customers' critical online businesses from ever-escalating attacks including distributed zombie attacks, spoofed flood attacks, and complex hybrid floods that combine attack methods."

According to Craig Rodenberg, Vice President of Information Security at The Planet, this mitigation system is a part of a larger effort to enhance the company's already extensive suite of security services. "We've provided state-of-the-art flood protection for years," said Mr. Rodenberg. "This solution demonstrates our ongoing commitment to providing our customers with the best security tools in the industry."