Rostelecom protects Wi-Fi points from harmful data

On February 27, 2014 the Nominum company announced start of the solution of control of network security of Vantio ThreatAvert by Rostelecom operator in the city of Sochi, at the beginning of February, 2014.

Project Results

Rostelecom carried out deployment on the free access points of Wi-fi set in the territory of the city. Vantio ThreatAvert protects network infrastructure of Rostelecom, protecting Internet users.

Alexey Cherednichenko, the area director of Nominum across Russia and the CIS, noted: "In recent years we observe significant sales growth in our region where the leading service providers, such as Rostelecom, use our solutions of Nominum of protection of the networks against the become frequent attacks a bot networks. This growth is provided that we evolve together with our clients, developing the innovative solutions optimized under their requirements".

Muslim Medzhlumov, the head of department of network security of Rostelecom, noted: "Growth of our networks and constantly increasing number of network threats require reliable infrastructure of DNS which would have the built-in means of protecting. With significant growth of number of users in our network during significant actions in Sochi, we needed the solution which at the same time would protect also users, and at the same time was steady against attacks to DNS. The solution Vantio ThreatAvert offers a comprehensive protection, has a user-friendly interface of management and also allows to build flexible statistic reports, as defined our optimal choice".