» Murray Cooke, British Telecom Group CTO


"Service providers need the agility and flexibility to rapidly deploy new services to meet their clients' requirements while protecting their valuable IP network infrastructure. Delivering CloudShield's deep packet inspection capabilities on the IBM BladeCenter will greatly enhance our customer's ability to control and secure their IP network traffic."

» Jim Pertzborn, Vice President,
Telecommunications Industry for IBM Systems and Technology Group


Guido Nienkemper, who is Security Practice Lead (Europe and North) at AlcaLu, says his company benchmarked a number of vendors, including Ellacoya Networks Inc. and Sandvine Inc. (London: SAND - message board; Toronto: SVC), and found Cloudshield "is the most flexible, has combined security and service control capabilities, and has the performance speeds that are needed" for Tier 1 carrier deployments.


"With more and more organizations moving to IP, maximizing the investment and guaranteeing systems security is a priority for TELUS.... With CloudShield as a valued partner, we are providing attack mitigation services in the network and hosting centers that operate so that the next time a customer is targeted by a denial-of-service attack, it will have zero impact on their day-to-day operations - and their bottom line."

» David Fuller, Vice President
   Solutions Development
   TELUS Corporation


"The CS-2000 opens application and business opportunities for Prolexic that complement our existing Border Defense Suite product line. "CloudShield's platform provides the performance and the flexibility we require to ensure that we are able to quickly and effectively meet our customers' constantly evolving security needs.

» Darren Rennick, CEO of Prolexic Technologies


"CloudShield's high-potential technology has helped us provide numerous innovative solutions for our government customers. We believe CloudShield offers a unique technology and approach to solving a variety of difficult challenges and are using it to power complex system solutions. The CS-2000 product advancements are extremely timely, and we intend to apply the updated hardware and development environment to continue meeting the needs of our customers."

» Jeff Steiner, Director of Program
   Development for Data Systems
   Operations in the Command, Control,
   and Intelligence Division of Northrop
   Grumman Mission Systems


"CloudShield brings a programmable deep packet inspection (DPI) product that is unique in the industry today. Its focus on multi-function content processing fits very well with our experience in helping the Intelligence Community and DoD customers protect their critical infrastructure and services, and is perfectly aligned with what our customers are demanding."

» Tony Smeraglinolo,
   President of L-3, Intelligent Solutions Division (ISD)



"CloudShield brings a level of expertise in the service provider security market that is unique in the industry today."

» John Meyer,
   President of Alcatel Lucent's services activities


"We are thrilled that CloudShield stepped in and quickly solved a problem that could have turned out much worse. CloudShield's solid reputation in DNS mitigation was the main reason we contacted them. They worked with us around the clock until the problem was resolved and helped us ensure a DDoS attack of this scale on EveryDNS will not happen in the future."

» David Ulevitch,
   Founder, EveryDNS



"CloudShield's best of breed platform and DPI technology is a great complement to our Unified Assurance solution. We see increasing market demand for greater intelligence and control to achieve higher security and quality for the end users. This partnership will allow us to best address this key and growing demand from our service provider customers."

» Richard McBee,
   Senior Vice President and General Manager
   of the Tektronix Communications Business



"The pressure to deliver competitive and profitable broadband services such as IPTV, and new security threats associated with these technologies, have increased the importance of IP content control. By teaming up with CloudShield, we're able to offer service providers in South America a comprehensive solution to this growing problem and one that will adapt with their future application needs."

» Paulo Perez, security professional services managing principal,
   Lucent Technologies in the Caribbean and Latin America.