Corero Network Security (CNS: LN), today announced that they are presenting on the evolving DDoS threat landscape at Interop, being held May 6-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Hudson, MA (USA), Tuesday – April 17th, 2012 — Corero Network Security (CNS: LN), the leading provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense Solutions, today announced that they are presenting on the evolving DDoS threat landscape at Interop, being held May 6-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ashley Stephenson, executive vice president, will be a featured presenter at Interop. The event will take place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas from May 6-10, 2012.

WHO: Ashley Stephenson, Corero Network Security Executive Vice President
WHAT: “Application Layer DDoS Attacks: Motives, Mechanisms, and Mitigation”
WHERE: The Mandalay Bay ConventionCenter, Las Vegas
WHEN: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 9:00 am PDT

During the session Stephenson will examine the motivations behind today’s DDoS attacks, highlighting how hackers increasingly are using them as smokescreens to divert attention from surreptitious attacks aimed at stealing data. He also will take an in-depth look at the evolving mechanisms used to launch attacks, both newlow and slow application-layer DDoS attacks and traditional bandwidth consuming network-layer DDoS attacks. In addition, hewill share real-world attack scenarios and discuss ways to stop DDoS attacks.

About Corero Network Security:
Corero Network Security (CNS:LN) ( http://www.corero.com/en/products_and_services/ps_services/securewatch_plus ) is an international network security company and the leading provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defense and Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions ( http://www.corero.com/en/products_and_services/ips/products_and_services_ips_overview ). Corero’s products and services ( http://www.corero.com/en/products_and_services/ps_services/securewatch_plus ) provide comprehensive, integrated, high-performance protection against constantly evolving network-borne cyber threats. Customers include enterprises, service providers and government organizations worldwide. Corero’s appliance-based solutions are highly adaptive and preemptively respond to modern cyber attacks, known and unknown, protecting critical information and online assets. Corero’s products are transparent on the network, highly scalable, and feature the lowest latency and highest reliability in the industry. Corero is headquartered in Hudson, Mass., with offices around the world.

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Veteran Technology Entrepreneur will lead Corero’s Global Expansion Strategy.

Hudson, MA (USA), Tuesday – April 17th, 2012 — Corero Network Security (CNS: LN), the leading provider of DDoS Defense and Next Generation IPS (NGIPS) solutions, today named veteran IT industry expert Ashley Stephenson as executive vice president. An Internet technology entrepreneur, Stephenson, who has operating experience in the United States, Europe and Asia, will lead Corero’s global expansion strategy.

“We are delighted to have someone of Ashley’s caliber join Corero. His proven executive leadership experience, international expertise and channel know-how will help us take the company’s solutions to the next level in the escalating battle against cyber attacks,” said Marty Meyer, CEO of Corero.

Stephenson co-founded or led several IT companies as chairman or CEO including Reva Systems, acquired by ODIN, and Xedia Corporation, acquired by Lucent. Most recently, he has provided strategic advisory services to leading companies on the evolution of the global IT market. Stephenson has served on the board of directors of several startups and industry consortia. He also was awarded “CEO of the Year” by the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council.

“I’m very excited to join Corero. The company’s game-changing DDoS Defense and Next Generation IPS technology make this a unique opportunity to expand the business as the network security market continues to experience explosive growth,” Stephenson said.

“We will continue to build on our strategy to work with key partners around the globe to build out an intelligent next generation defense infrastructure against cyber attacks. The more enterprises and institutions we protect, the more we learn about the evolving nature of the threats. It is a win-win-win for our partners, our customers and Corero,” Stephenson added.

Corero’s products and services provide its customers with a robust, high-performance defense against the constantly evolving and increasingly sophisticated realm of cyber attacks. Its DDoS Defense System (DDS), which stops DDoS attacks, and NGIPS solutions are pro-actively protecting the networks and IT resources of enterprises, service providers and government organizations worldwide.

About Corero Network Security:
Corero Network Security (CNS: LN) is an international network security company and the leading provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defense and Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions. Corero’s products and services provide comprehensive, integrated, high-performance protection against constantly evolving network-borne cyber threats. Customers include enterprises, service providers and government organizations worldwide. Corero’s appliance-based solutions are highly adaptive and preemptively respond to modern cyber attacks, known and unknown, protecting critical information and online assets. Corero’s products are transparent on the network, highly scalable, and feature the lowest latency and highest reliability in the industry. Corero is headquartered in Hudson, Mass., with offices around the world.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
1 Cabot Road
Hudson, MA 01749 – USA
(978) 594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.corero.com