21st Century Technologies, Nexusguard to Provide Cyber Resilience for DDoS Attacks in Nigeria

21st Century Technologies Limited, a leading ICT powerhouse in Nigeria has partnered with Nexusguard, a leading DDoS security solution provider to unveil DDoS scrubbing center in Nigeria to provide DDoS mitigation service to enterprise and government agencies in Africa.

Wale Ajisebutu

Wale Ajisebutu, chairman of 21st Century Technologies, at the unveiling of the solution to banks and enterprises in Lagos, said: “We opted to partner with Nexusguard because of their global reach and robustness of their platform. They have helped many companies and governments globally defend against cyberattacks.

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“Nexusguard is consistently recognised by analysts such as Gartner and Forrester as a market leader. Customers that choose to take advantage of our new compelling cybersecurity solution will surely capture enormous opportunities for unlimited growth,” he said.

With DDoS risk increasing worldwide, service providers are updating their capabilities to provide not only bandwidth and subscriptions, but also cybersecurity.

That transformation, known as Telco 5.0, demands the methodology and mechanics to shift platforms, people and processes to provide optimal security. Nexusguard fulfils that need with its global scrubbing cloud.

Paired with 21st Century Technologies’s local capacity, the companies are now prepared to provide a seamless “global+local” scrubbing network that detects and mitigates both international and local DDoS attacks, simultaneously.

Commenting Jeremy Lee, vice president, Sales at Nexusguard, ,“ We have exclusive partnership with 21st Century Limited in Nigeria. This is a strategic technology alliance in which we are going to integrate our technology to the 21st Century’s. The Company will provide all the local skills to tackle all the issues within the country while Nexusguard will be on the backend supporting them in terms of zeroing the attacks. So, we are offering them supports to meet the market needs,”

Speaking on effects of DDoS attacks to businesses and countries, Lee said, “DDoS is becoming a global problem. More countries are faced with DDoS attacks at the national level. So, in Africa we observed that South Africa was under attack last month. One of the telcos was brought down for 10 days or more. So, with partnership of this nature we have with 21st Century will assist service providers to take care of (potential) attacks, clean the traffic and then protect the business from going down”.

He said that businesses, especially banks that subscribe to services and applications should be able to get on-premise firewalls, subscribe to secured internet links like the services that 21st Century provides. “They have to stay ahead such that when attacks occur they can be able to mitigate it before it gets to their data centre”, he added.

Lee advised companies to be prepared at all times for possible DDoS attacks by carrying out route configurations of their systems and put their website on monitoring mood “so that any time there is an attack they can detect and clean the traffic thereby preventing the systems from total shutdown”.

Also speaking, Dr. Peter Obadare, co-founder/COO, Digital Encode and key cybersecurity partner to 21st Century Technologies, said, that dealing with today’s massive and complex multi-vectored threats requires a robust defense strategy, a portfolio of leading-edge network resources, and battle-tested expertise.

Nexusguard’s Cybersecurity Platform is an integrated anti-DDoS solution that leverages mitigation technologies, a globally distributed scrubbing network, and automated threat detection to protect websites, applications, networks, and DNS services from DDoS attacks.

21st Century builds digital infrastructure including most advanced global digital security point of present in Nigeria, Tier 4 data centre, academy, software development centre to help esteem customers, partners and government in Africa to deploy necessary innovation solutions to remain secure, competitive, lead and win in the era of digital transformation and engagement.