Interoute adds security services to European cloud

Cloud services platform provider Interoute has announced that it's to put security services into its European cloud.

These will include security of messaging systems, blocking of malicious content and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In accordance with the corporate, by managing high-performance sensors built into the core of its network, Interoute can protect organisations from attack by diverting malicious traffic faraway from their networks and towards a mitigation device, where the traffic is cleaned.

Organisations pays monthly for the threat mitigation services, together with DDoS mitigation, intrusion prevention and email filtering. Users log into Interoute's European cloud via its online portal, The Cloud Store, to observe and assess the threats and report on incidents as they happen.

Jeff Finch, security services product manager at Interoute, said: “The recent spate of cyber attacks on organisations' networks is a stark reminder that companies cannot predict the dimensions, time or kind of attack. The unpredictability and continuously changing nature of threats mean that organisations have to be prepared and feature flexibility within the solutions they deploy. Interoute understands this need for agility and is providing flexible services to fit the shift within the threats.”

It plans so as to add certification and encryption capabilities, next-generation application firewalls, secure email encryption, archiving and managed endpoint protection within the first 1/2 2012, and vulnerability and policy management, secure storage, security information and event management and validated threat feeds later within the year.