The New DDoS Playbook: How TierPoint and Corero Make Seconds Count

LONDON, Aug. 4, 2026 – In the digital economy, uptime is currency. A new strategic alliance between IT infrastructure giant TierPoint and cybersecurity specialist Corero Network Security is fundamentally recalibrating how businesses can protect that currency. The partners have officially launched Adapt DDoS Protection, a managed service that promises to shrink the response time to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks from several minutes to mere seconds.

Powered by Corero's SmartWall ONE™ technology and delivered through TierPoint’s extensive network of 40 data centers, the service represents a significant shift in cyber defense strategy. It moves away from reactive, high-latency mitigation models toward an "always-on," automated defense embedded directly within the network fabric. For organizations with complex hybrid IT, colocation, or dedicated internet environments, this partnership signals a new, more accessible era of enterprise-grade resilience against one of the internet's most disruptive threats.

The Evolving Battlefield: Speed as the New Armor

The nature of DDoS attacks has transformed. The classic image of a massive, sustained flood of traffic designed to overwhelm a server is now just one tool in a much larger, more sophisticated arsenal. Today’s attackers leverage automation to launch rapid, multi-vector "hit-and-run" assaults that are often too short and too precise for traditional defenses to even register, let alone stop. These surgical strikes can cause significant disruption before a legacy system, which typically relies on redirecting traffic to a cloud-based "scrubbing center," can even react.

This is the exact problem the new partnership aims to solve. "Modern DDoS attacks are faster, more automated and targeted than ever before," said TierPoint Chief Information Security Officer Paul Mazzucco. "With Corero, our mitigation times have been reduced from minutes to seconds, helping customers maintain uninterrupted services even during active attacks."

This reduction is not an incremental improvement; it's a paradigm shift. Research confirms that where previous solutions took an average of six minutes to mitigate an attack, the new integrated system slashes that time to just 18 seconds. This speed is achieved through Corero’s SmartWall ONE™ technology, which operates "inline" at the edge of TierPoint's network. Instead of waiting to detect an anomaly and then rerouting traffic, the solution inspects every packet in real-time. It surgically identifies and drops malicious traffic instantly while allowing legitimate user requests to pass through unimpeded, preserving both availability and performance.

Furthermore, the technology is evolving to meet the latest threats. With attackers increasingly hiding their malicious traffic within encrypted channels, Corero recently enhanced its platform to stop encrypted application-layer (Layer 7) attacks in real-time, using AI-assisted detection to dismantle a growing blind spot for many security providers. This proactive, always-on posture is the new table stakes for defending against a threat landscape where every second of downtime translates directly to lost revenue and customer trust.

Partnership Power: Democratizing Enterprise-Grade Defense

While the technology is impressive, the true innovation may lie in the delivery model. The alliance between Corero and TierPoint is a powerful case study in strategic synergy, combining a best-in-class technology provider with a leading managed services and infrastructure operator. Corero brings the deep, specialized expertise in real-time DDoS mitigation, while TierPoint provides the massive scale, operational excellence, and established customer relationships across its coast-to-coast U.S. data center footprint.

This collaboration effectively democratizes access to top-tier cybersecurity. Many organizations, particularly in the mid-market, have the critical need for robust DDoS protection but lack the in-house budget or specialized staff to deploy and manage a dedicated solution. By integrating Corero's technology into a managed service, TierPoint removes these barriers to entry.

"Customers today are looking for trusted partners who can simplify cybersecurity while delivering enterprise-class protection," noted Michelle Ragusa-McBain, Global Vice President of Channels and Alliances at Corero Network Security. "Our partnership with TierPoint demonstrates how combining industry-leading technology with world-class managed services creates greater value for customers. Together, we're making advanced DDoS protection easier to consume, easier to operate, and more accessible to organizations of every size."

The service is specifically designed for clients with dedicated internet access (DIA), colocation, and hybrid cloud infrastructures—environments where performance is paramount and the attack surface can be complex. For a business co-locating its servers in a TierPoint data center, having DDoS protection at the network edge, managed by the same provider that guarantees their power and cooling, is a seamless and logical extension of service. It transforms cybersecurity from a complex, bolt-on product into a simple, integrated feature of their core infrastructure.

Beyond Downtime: Securing Business Continuity and Growth

The conversation around DDoS protection is shifting from a purely technical discussion of gigabits per second to a strategic business conversation about resilience and continuity. As Corero CEO Carl Herberger stated, "Organizations today simply cannot afford downtime." The consequences of a successful attack extend far beyond a temporarily unavailable website. They include direct revenue loss, damage to brand reputation, erosion of customer trust, and the diversion of valuable IT resources to frantic firefighting.

By offering proactive, real-time protection, the Adapt DDoS Protection service functions as a critical component of a modern business continuity strategy. It ensures that customer-facing applications and revenue-generating services remain online and performant, even in the face of a dedicated attack. This reliability is not a cost center; it is a competitive advantage.

The service is a cornerstone of TierPoint’s broader Adapt Platform, a suite of managed security services that includes Managed Detection and Response (MDR), managed firewalls, and more. This integrated approach ensures that DDoS defense is not an isolated silo but part of a holistic security posture that provides unified threat visibility and response capabilities. This strategy allows clients to untangle the complexity of managing multiple security vendors and instead rely on a single, trusted partner for their infrastructure and its protection.

The strategic implications are significant for both companies. For Corero, a publicly traded firm (AIM: CNS, OTCQX: DDOSF), the partnership validates its technology and provides a major channel to market, contributing to its growing annual recurring revenue. The relationship is already deepening, evidenced by a recent $1.1 million, three-year contract for Corero's Web Application Security (WAAP) solution, which was co-developed with TierPoint. For privately held TierPoint, the advanced DDoS offering is a powerful differentiator that enhances the value of its entire platform, driving customer acquisition and retention in a fiercely competitive market. This alliance serves as a powerful blueprint for how specialized technology and managed infrastructure can converge to deliver security that is not only powerful but also practical and accessible for the modern enterprise.