Company Overview October 2014
Presentation Structure 1 DDoS Attacks 2 Black Lotus DDoS Defense Solution 3 About Black Lotus
What Does Black Lotus Do? We are a security company that protects businesses from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. We keep internet traffic flowing.
DDoS Attacks What is a DDoS Attack? A DDoS attack is when a network asset is flooded with information, preventing legitimate users from accessing it.
DDoS Attacks Why Do DDoS Attacks Exist? Motives: Extortion Political Economic Reputational Emotional Targets: Ecommerce Gaming Political Sites Financial Institutions Governments Outcomes: Lost revenue Harmful to reputation
DDoS Attacks Derp Trolling NTP Attacks 2014
DDoS Attacks Lizard Squad Attacks Aug 2014
DDoS Attacks DDoS Attacks Are Growing 35% of companies have been hit by a DDoS attack The volume of DDoS attacks has increased 50% in the last year 35% Q1 2013 Q1 2014
Our Solution Black Lotus DDoS Mitigation Attacker Malicious Bots Legitimate Users Black Lotus Scrubbing Center Critical Network Asset
About Us Our Assets Headquartered in San Francisco Global company with operations in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, Washington, D.C., and Amsterdam San Francisco, CA Santa Clara, CA San Jose, CA Los Angeles, CA Ashburn, VA Amsterdam, NL Asia (Q1 2015) Sydney, Australia Q4 2014
About Us Our Recent Activity The largest attack we ve mitigated (February 2014) Average attack size during Q2 2014 Volume of DDoS attacks during Q2 2014 421 Gbps 2.9 Gbps 276,447
About Us Planned Locations 2015-2016 Within 1-2 years we will cover most of the world using a semi-distributed hub architecture Seattle Chicago London Amsterdam Tokyo Silicon Valley Toronto New York Frankfurt Hong Kong Ashburn Miami Tel Aviv Los Angeles Dallas Puerto Rico Dubai Singapore Costa Rica Lagos Sao Paulo Sydney Scrubbing center Regional Facility Highlights: 2+ Tbps aggregate transit 200 Gbps aggregate peering 5 global scrubbing centers 20+ data centers
Our Solution Technology Powerful and Proprietary Technologies Purpose-built global IP backbone DDoS traffic diversion techniques Proprietary software/algorithms, including our patent-pending Human Behavior Analysis software Dynamic attack signature recognition Protection against layer 3,4, and 7 DDoS attacks
Our Solution Products and Services PFN Protection for Networks For enterprise grade networks PFS Protection for Services For any web service, including websites, email, and VOIP
Our Solutions Products and Services Dedicated Servers Native protection on network Bare metal servers QC7, QC8, OCTX5 LAMP management option Colocation Full, Half, Quarter Racks available Los Angeles DDoS bundle available
Our Solution PFN (Protection for Networks) Connect to Black Lotus network virtually (via GRE tunnel) or physically Announce ingress traffic to Black Lotus (AS32421) all the time or only during a DDoS attack Supports both BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) and static routing protocols Only clean traffic is passed to the your network ISP 1 ISP 2 Internet Your Network Black Lotus GRE/Fiber Connection Black Lotus Scrubbing Center Scrubbing Center Features Proprietary Software Powerful Hardware Expert Support Team
Our Solution PFS (Protection for Services) Works for any service with an IP address Change your DNS records to point to a Black Lotus Virtual IP Address Black Lotus scrubs all ingress traffic Black Lotus forwards clean traffic to your origin server Black Lotus Scrubbing Scrubbing Center Features Proprietary Software Powerful Hardware Expert Support Team Internet Black Lotus Reverse Proxy Server (Virtual IP Address) Your Server (Original IP Address)
Our Solution Pricing Model Infrastructure as a Service Monthly fee depends on tier of service Service tiers based on volume of clean traffic (Mbps) and attack size protection (Gbps) No hardware or software needed Emergency protection option
Our Solution Market Competition What Sets Black Lotus Apart First mover advantage we ve been around since 1999 Patent-pending Human Behavior Analysis software Globally distributed presence Security Operations Center (SOC) features network, security, and systems experts with years of experience
Our Solution Customer Support 24-hour Security Operations Center (SOC) in Los Angeles, CA Attack Monitoring Platform (AMP) allows for monitoring of network and service traffic 24-hour email support 24-hour phone support
About Us Our Team Founders helped create the DDoS protection market in 1999 CEO and SVP are industry veterans extensive contact networks CEO has built 5 successful companies and is a serial entrepreneur COO comes from IBM and has extensive operations experience CFO comes from technology investment banking VP of Marketing (Frank Ip) has 20+years experience in network security Arman Khalili CEO Patrick Shahijanian COO Warren Dewar CFO Shawn Marck Co-Founder/CSO Xenophon Giannis SVP Sales Frank Ip VP of Marketing
About Us Our History 1999: Black Lotus founded in response to US CERT advisories of DDoS attacks 2007: Protection for Services product launched 2009: Protection for Networks product launched 2013 June: Industry Capital invests in Black Lotus 2013 October: Black Lotus acquires the managed hosting division of 8x8 2014 April: Black Lotus secures $6M in financing from East West Bank 2014 May: Ashburn, VA scrubbing center goes live
About Us Our Mission We defend the infrastructure on which businesses are built.