Imperva, Inc. has announced that InnoGames, a developer and publisher of online games, has implemented Imperva Incapsula to protect its 150 million registered players from outages due to DDoS attacks. Incapsula Infrastructure DDoS Protection safeguards critical network infrastructure from attacks that would interrupt gamer experience, disrupt business operations, and damage the InnoGames brand.
Online gaming platforms are highly sensitive to latency and availability issues, making them ideal targets for DDoS attacks. Over the past year, InnoGames has seen a dramatic increase in the frequency and size of DDoS attacks against its network infrastructure. As the assaults became more frequent, InnoGames required a routed BGP-based DDoS mitigation solution that allowed fast, automated failover in the event of the attack, flexibility to implement changes quickly, and responsive technical support. Incapsula Infrastructure DDoS Protection offers this through use of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which allows routing changes to large ranges to IP addresses to be made quickly.
“Due to the highly competitive nature of our games, we see DDoS attacks against our infrastructure that we believe are perpetrated by a small group of gamers looking to gain competitive advantage against other players. Without proper mitigation, these attacks can affect up to 100,000 players at a time,” said Raimund Schlichtiger, head of system administration at InnoGames. “Upon the deployment of Imperva Incapsula, we saw an increase in security with no added slowdown in user experience. Within days of the implementation, use of the Incapsula Infrastructure DDoS Protection services helped mitigate multiple DDoS attacks at all three of our datacenters with zero downtime after an attack ended and traffic was switched back to the ISP.”
"The cost of launching a DDoS attack has dropped considerably in the last few years, which we believe makes DDoS attacks for hire more readily available to those seeking to disrupt service to a game server." said Marc Gaffan, general manager for the Incapsula service at Imperva. "Incapsula offers gaming companies comprehensive, on-demand DDoS protection for entire subnets based on BGP routing. For customers with smaller networks, we also offer a deployment model that protects the infrastructure and origin servers behind a single IP address.”
Incapsula is a cloud-based application delivery service that makes websites safer, faster and more reliable. Using Incapsula, organizations large and small can protect their businesses with enterprise-grade web application security, DDoS mitigation, performance optimization and load balancing.
