Azerbaijan to be protected from DDoS-attacks

/By AzerNews/

By Nigar Orujova

Azerbaijani internet users will soon be protected from DDoS-attacks, as a commercial service for the issue from Azerbaijan's primary provider, Delta Telecom, will be put into operation by late September-early October.

The company reported that the service will be available to different categories of users who will be able to use it at affordable rates.

The service is a result of the company attaching great importance to the stability of its infrastructure. Prices will be given according to the capacities of the Internet channel in use.

“For instance, if the cost per megabit cost providers at 10 manats, the company will be able to provide full protection of the bought traffic from DDoS-attacks by paying 1.5 manats. In addition, Delta Telecom will offer enterprise solutions and solutions based at the data center on a commercial basis,” the company said.

Protection against DDoS-attacks is organized at the level of hardware-software complexes “Arbor Networks”. The protection system allows it to secure servers and the infrastructure of businesses. In addition, customers will be able to provide multi-level protection of information systems from outside intruders.

The Arbor Networks systems, which the company uses to protect against external cyber threats, will apply methods of traffic clearing in the border points and using an internal filter.

In case of detection of anomalies, the system will block them at the border points, and then at the inner filter will block all sorts of attacks, such as the large number of requests that result in a system failure.

Earlier, Delta Telecom reported on strengthening the security of the internal segment of AzNET.

The company intends to provide an additional two outputs to a global backbone network to Georgia via an access point in the Balakan region of Azerbaijan.

Currently, the domestic segment of the company has five high-speed alternative points of access to Europe. They are located in the Gazakh, Agstafa, Agdash, Gusar, and Khachmaz regions.

Internet traffic to Azerbaijan by Delta Telecom network comes from three directions: Russia, Georgia and Turkey via Nakhichevan.

The physical capacity of the domestic segment of the Internet is 300 gigabits, expandable up to 500. About 70 gigabits are used in the total traffic into the country. The remaining part is not used and is held in reserve in order to ensure the stability of the segment.

These resources are sufficient in case the total amount of traffic consumed in Azerbaijan will increase by several times.

Azerbaijan ranks the cyber security issue high on its list of priorities and cooperates with countries around the world to ensure the stable use of Internet by local users.

Currently, the internet penetration rate in Azerbaijan stands at 70 percent. The broadband Internet penetration among the population stands at 50 percent.

The number of cyber threats has reduced in Azerbaijan, as the number of cyber security-related requests from state structures of the country dropped to 104 in August, the Cyber Security Center reports.

Requests in the last month decreased by 27.2 percent compared to July 2014.

Azerbaijan has recently strengthened the security of the e-services portal.

The Information Technology Centre has implemented an information security management system according to the requirements of the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 standard, the Center reported earlier.

The Center is the operator of the portal Electronic Government, and implementation of the standards confirms that the activities of the National Center for Certification Service are carried out in accordance with international standards.

The certification of e-services in accordance with ISO 27001 will ensure security, transparency, and facilitate citizens' access to services.