Telecom Italia Sparkle and Cisco Systems Join Forces to Build S@FE

Overview

Telecom Italia Sparkle (TI Sparkle), a wholly owned subsidiary of Telecom Italia SpA, was established in 2003 with the objective of developing and consolidating the Italian Group's international wholesale and retail business. Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have now evolved from random hacker exploits to coordinated operations by criminal organizations to blackmail and extort money from corporate victims. DDoS attacks are the second-most costly security incident overall for organizations. TI Sparkle and Cisco Systems, Inc. rolled-out S@FE, a network-based solution for international wholesale customers of the TI Sparkle IP backbone (SEABONE). S@fe is designed to provide more effective protection against DoS and DDoS attacks.