CloudShield and IBM BladeCenter

Protecting critical DNS infrastructure

"We have seen some of the most aggressive DNS attacks occur during the past few months and expect this behavior to continue. Service providers can now significantly improve their security by leveraging the advanced security capabilities of the IBM BladeCenter."

— Matt Jones, President and CEO, CloudShield

As more telecommunications networks migrate to a converged, IP-based, Next-Generation Network (NGN), the underlying NGN services like the Domain Name System (DNS) that operate the network become even more essential and require increasing levels of critical security applications.

DNS attacks represent a malicious and costly threat to NGN networks. A single successful DNS attack will severely limit or prevent access to thousands of commercial, government or educational Web sites.

CloudShield DNS Defender The CloudShield DNS Defender™ is an application that runs on the newly introduced IBM BladeCenter PN41 and helps detect and discard malicious traffic while passing on valid requests for processing through a series of comprehensive protocol filters and other techniques. Leveraging the DPI-focused architecture of the IBM BladeCenter PN41, CloudShield’s DNS Defender makes use of advanced caching features that can dramatically accelerate DNS lookups.

CloudShield DNS Defender™ protects NGN services by ensuring DNS availability:

Faster DNS look-ups through caching and filtering
Improves performance through the utilization of the high performance IBM BladeCenter PN41
Helps reduce power and cooling requirements by reducing appliance sprawl.

Sample Configuration

Services
Control
Transport
Acess

Chassis	BladeCenter HT
Server	PN41
Memory	8GB
Other

CloudShield and IBM: a powerful combination

The combination of CloudShield’s DNS Defender and the IBM BladeCenter family delivers the performance, reliability and affordability demanded by mission critical telecommunications applications. The IBM BladeCenter is the ideal platform for the deployment of these services providing a single platform to help reduce operating costs and complexity.