Become The DDOS Fighting Hero with Gladius on your Side
Think of a situation when you try to login to your bank account to make an urgent transaction but the bank's site is down due to a DDOS cyber attack.
Cut to a medical emergency
You are trying to access your hospital's website to access some important information but cyber criminals prevent you from doing so.
Or take the case of National government elections. You hear some rumors and want to check a few facts on a govt. website but that is down too.
Is this the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster or are we facing Armageddon?
Let me tell you it is neither. It is the grim reality of today. While we constantly rely on websites on the internet for information cybercriminals are working overtine to make them inaccessible when they are needed the most. Last year alone DDoS attacks amounted to a $150 billion loss.
According to Nexusguard’s Q1 2017 “Threat Report”, DDoS attack frequency has increased by a staggering 380 percent in the first quarter of 2017. This may result in not just financial loss to businesses but also confusion and chaos in the public at large.
As a result a large amounts of money is spent to prevent such DDOS attacks on websites.
Companies pay around $5000 a month to get their websites protected. This price goes up for larger websites.
If you are a small business owner with an online business can you afford these escalating costs for DDOS protection?
Gladius comes to the scene with a out of the box idea to leverage the desire of individuals like you and me who want to stop the DDOS attacks. It is creating a "Decentralized CDN and DDoS Protection on the Blockchain".
This would results in
It would create this by pooling of bandwidth and computing power of individuals who would run the Gladius software on their desktop machines.
Gladius would use this pooled computing power and bandwidth to create secure peer to peer CDN networks that would be used to deliver content in case of a DDOS attack.
To develop this business model Gladius is coming out with an ICO https://gladius.io/
Those contributing bandwidth and computing power would be paid in GLA tokens.
Website owners would pay with GLA tokens to get their websites secured.
The result would be a more robust, speedier and secure internet experience for the user and a much lower cost of protection against DDOS attacks for the website owners.
Since there would be only a finite number of tokens in the system they would appreciate in value as business grows.
Even though Gladius is taking on some established players in the DDOS protection and CDN market
However it comes to the market with a unique business model where in it is leveraging the resources of individual's computers to combat DDOS and create a peer to peer CDN.
Another plus for Gladius would be that the entry level for securing a website against DDOS may get lowered significantly as it plans to remove the middlemen. Thus it should be able to attract a lot of small business owners who could not have paid the high cost of prevalent DDOS protection.
This would lower the entry barrier and further expand the market.
The ICO offers the opportunity to obtain the Gladius tokens GLA and benefit from ever growing DDOS protection and CDN market.
More information can be obtained here.
https://steemit.com/blockchain/@originalworks/150-steem-sponsored-writing-contest-gladius
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