 Welcome to JSA TV the newsroom for tech and telecom professionals. I'm Jamie Scott Okutaya here in Honolulu. Take a look at this drone footage, care of X-Site modular, fabulous PTC 2019. Joining me here today Mr. Xenophon Giannis. He is the vice president of Nexus Guard. Zen, how are you? Good, great having a great time here. We're so honored that you're here on JSA TV. Thanks Jamie. I love being here. It's my first time. And we're glad to have you. Now Nexus Guard, just for our viewers who just may not already know yet, cyber security firm specialized in DDoS attack mitigation. Tell me a little bit more. So DDoS mitigation is a very crowded space but what Nexus Guard does that's really unique is that we're kind of a managed security service provider. We cater specifically to carriers, ISPs, data centers and network providers. So we help protect infrastructure so that to preserve their revenue and their their network and also help them productize services for their customers. I love that. So also you know I would say one of the ways that you're out there productizing for your customers you're releasing these fabulous reports. Really informative, informative stuff. You just released a report showing nearly two-thirds of DDoS attacks and just the third quarter of 2018 we're targeting communication service providers. Obviously a very sobering report for the folks here at PTC. Can you give us more details? Sure. Well if you think about it, if you're a company or an individual that's being targeted you are living on someone else's network. So everyone buys from a carrier, they buy from AT&T level 3 etc. And so if I'm trying to get to you as an attacker I the collateral damage is the carrier. So and if I can't take you down I'm going to try to flood the pipes of the carrier so that they shut you down. So in a way it's not necessarily the carrier that's targeted but they end up getting targeted because I'm going after the end user. So it's not so much the why they're targeting communication service providers it's the how and what can we do? Well the how is it changes daily right? So our threat report that we release tells you the trends that we see. So it's basically last year could have been UDP floods. This year it's NTP floods. We call them zero-day attacks those are the ones that are brand new because these hackers are smart. So how they have botnets they infect networks and computers and now cloud providers and send attacks from all over. And the why is or the what is what can these carriers and end users do to protect themselves and why should they do it? And I imagine that's where Nexus God comes in? Yes. So we can do two-fold right? We'll pretend protect your end users or enterprise customers but more importantly we can protect the carrier itself. So and we look at it on a two-phased approach. The carrier wants to protect their infrastructure so that their network doesn't go down. So if one customer gets hit not all customers are hit and and it preserves their revenue and their network resiliency. But on the other side you want to have be able to provide to the needy customers that need it for compliance or they've been hit or they're at high risk. They want to be able to say okay you Mr. Customer on a DDoS protected network but I'm going to make sure that your DDoS protected and I'm going to protect your IP space and your infrastructure so it can be a value add service that they can sell. And these these attacks these days so constant and so complicated. Right in the past the the carriers and ISPs what they would do is just go buy a bunch of hardware and try to solve the problem but there's two problems with that one the tax keep getting bigger so you have to buy more and more gear you have to pay maintenance on it and then you got to hire somebody that is actually on your staff probably one or two people that know how to run the gear because it's not your core competency. So one of the the the unique services that we provide as an MSSP is that you can use our software stack in your environment you're using our management our expertise we're updating the software where we're helping you manage it and then roll it out to your customers so it becomes not a big capex expenditure it becomes more of a operational expenditure and we become your security partner and that's what is a real benefit for the customers. That works that definitely works in our industry particularly we like the expertise to be on you. We do too. Alright well thank you Xen for joining us we so appreciate you and your and your time here again nexusguard guys nexusguard.com we have these quarterly reports are being released definitely take a look at them and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV happy networking