Cloudflare, the connectivity cloud company, had announced a collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton last week. With this collaboration, the company aims to support enterprises under attack by providing expedited Under Attack as a Service (UAaaS) with 30-day Rapid Response DDoS Mitigation, including continuous monitoring and protection. Under this new agreement, Booz Allen’s Global Commercial clients facing a cyber-attack will be connected to Cloudflare for immediate Incident Response.
Now, Booz Allen clients who may fall victim to cyber-attacks have a fast track to support when they need it most.
Malicious attacks like distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and ransomware can overwhelm Internet properties or corporate networks with traffic, disrupting operations. In recent months, the world has faced some of the largest cyber-attacks.
Last year, Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS attack—the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record at the time and helped discover an online threat, dubbed HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, that led to the largest attack in Internet history. To help mitigate the impact of this threat on the entire Internet ecosystem, Cloudflare quickly developed technology purpose-built to block any attack leveraging Rapid Reset for its customers automatically.
In conversation with edge/ Bashar Bashaireh, the Managing Director, and Head of Middle East and Turkiye at Cloudflare, who explained the collaboration strategy.
Why did you choose to collaborate with Booz Allen Hamilton?
There was a clear partnership opportunity, as some of the world’s largest commercial clients turn to Booz Allen Hamilton, and Cloudflare is known for stopping the largest cyber-attacks. This collaboration allows us to onboard and work with enterprises for immediate protection during the most pressing times.
Could you explain in detail how you will work to ensure enterprises under attack are provided expedited Under Attack as a Service (UAaaS) with 30-day Rapid Response DDoS Mitigation, including continuous monitoring and protection?
Under this new agreement, Booz Allen’s Global Commercial clients facing a cyber-attack will be connected to Cloudflare for immediate Incident Response. This is a fast track to Cloudflare support when they need it most.
Booz Allen clients that may fall victim to cyber-attacks will be connected to Cloudflare for rapid mitigation and continued protection. Combining Booz Allen’s cyber expertise with Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud, which delivers security and performance, enterprises can rely on rapid Incident Response while maintaining business operations. This starts with comprehensive guided support and moves forward to proactive defences.
Booz Allen’s Global Commercial Incident Response team will work closely with Cloudflare’s Under Attack Threat Advisory Solution Engineer teams to mitigate attacks. The combined team support begins at the start, from first guiding an under-attack client through onboarding onto Cloudflare.
During a client’s 30-day Incident Response period, the Cloudflare network continuously analyses traffic patterns and identifies potential attacks before any disruption. To be protected from future attacks, the Cloudflare team will conduct a complete cybersecurity evaluation, identifying solutions to implement for proactive defences moving forward.
Explain in detail the workings of your offerings and how they help your clients and other organisations.
Any global cyberattack sector organisation can rapidly onboard with Booz Allen and Cloudflare to benefit from immediate global network protection and extensive reporting on attacks, efforts, and actions. Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks and has the largest global network of DDoS mitigation data centres.
With its globally distributed data centres, the Cloudflare threat network absorbs and neutralises attacks while keeping websites and Internet applications accessible to legitimate users. Clients will receive detailed reports on attack vectors, mitigation strategies, and overall network performance to gain valuable insights into remediation efforts.
Are you looking at other collaborations like this? How do collaborations like these help organisations under attack?
Cloudflare partners with numerous organizations worldwide to optimise business security at scale. It has the largest global network of DDoS mitigation centres—with 310+ data centres across the globe, that is five times more than key competitors. With Cloudflare’s protection, organisations can block DDoS attacks of any size and kind.
Sometimes, the responses need to be in real time, and the definition of real time differs for different organisations; how do you then work around these requirements and customisations?
Cloudflare provides low latency cyber protection in minutes — this comprehensive protection against cyber-attacks can protect organisations against DDoS, ransomware, identity or access, network, web and application attacks.
How does a rapid response like this save revenue for clients- are there some numbers that can be shared?
In today’s interconnected environment, organisations across all sectors face the growing threat of attacks that can cause outages and disrupt operations. With the shift to hybrid work, it is harder than ever to maintain visibility and security controls over how users move and store data across cloud environments. At the same time, the financial and reputational risks to losing sensitive data are higher than ever — with the latest research from IBM, a Cloudflare partner, estimating the average cost of a data breach at $4.35M. Cyber-attacks can be incredibly costly on a business, regardless of size.
