Case Study: OSHEAN achieves automated DDoS protection and deeper network visibility with Kentik

Kentik Delivers Network Automation & Security for OSHEAN

OSHEAN, a Rhode Island-based research and education network operator serving 160 member organizations, needed a scalable way to protect its growing network from DDoS attacks without overloading its staff or budget. Its manual, reactive mitigation approach caused outages and required significant around-the-clock effort, so OSHEAN turned to Kentik for fast, accurate, and automated DDoS detection and analytics.

Kentik provided a SaaS-based network visibility platform that OSHEAN integrated with its routing infrastructure and cloud scrubbing service to automate attack detection and mitigation. The result was a fully automated security architecture that stopped more than 300 volumetric DDoS attacks from affecting member networks in less than one year, while also giving OSHEAN deeper traffic insight to improve performance, reduce costs, and support better policy decisions.

OSHEAN

Dave Marble

Chief Executive Officer