Montreal, QC -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/17/2015 -- Opticca Security, a division of Opticca Consulting, released a new service that helps companies select the appropriate DDoS protection partner for their specific needs. The new offering centres on a structured, comprehensive approach that covers technical criteria, business priorities, commercial terms, and legal conditions, including the development of a time-effective on-boarding strategy to mitigate downtime for sites and IT infrastructure.

This methodology enables companies to select a provider that is best aligned with their needs while helping them avoid costly mistakes. This is particularly significant because DDoS security provider contracts are typically 12 months in duration with virtually no option to cancel.

"We're happy to announce the immediate availability of our new DDoS protection evaluation service," Opticca Security VP Sales Joey Campione said, "This valuable new option is going to help companies everywhere make the right choices with regard to this increasingly important form of protection. We're already helping our clients save money and find better solutions as they look for DDoS protection for their IT assets, and we're ready to do the same for many more to come."

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one in which a multitude of compromised systems overwhelm a target computer with useless traffic, crowding out service for legitimate users. There are generally two negative results when a denial of service attack occurs: Either the site outright crashes or its response time materially deteriorates. The typical volume of traffic and the average sophistication of these DDoS attacks continues to increase, making it more challenging to build defences against them.

The rise of such attacks has driven the development of a new cyber security niche in the form of DDOS protection providers. Services like Akamai and Imperva/Incapsula are at the forefront of a fast rising industry that helps companies with their cloud-based DDoS solutions. At the most basic level, DDoS protection providers redirect attack-related network traffic through their own high-capacity networks, relieving the targeted systems of clients and allowing them to continue serving users.

With a longstanding, amply demonstrated commitment to providing objective, informed advice and effective security solutions to clients, Opticca Security is especially well positioned to launch its just-announced DDoS protection evaluation program. As with other Opticca offerings, the company's security experts will deploy a deep knowledge of all the available options and technologies on behalf of clients, helping them find the best available DDoS protection option for their particular needs and characteristics.

The new service joins a wealth of other best-in-class Opticca security offerings, including Penetration testing, PCI DSS and ISO 27001 consulting, incident response and forensics, risk and vulnerability management, and more. More information about the new DDoS protection evaluation program or any of Opticca Security's other services can be found at the company's website.

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With a wide range of highly effective cyber-security solutions and services that keep sensitive data, IT systems, websites, and other digital assets safe, Opticca Security helps clients make the most of their security and risk management investments.