California on Dec. 15 released an invitation for bid seeking an Internet service provider (ISP) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation.
The contractor will provide at least a 10-gigabit capacity circuit connection and 24/7 support for a California Department of Technology facility in Santa Ana. The state also maintains facilities in Vacaville and Rancho Cordova. Each of the three sites must have unique Internet service providers.
"When the [DDoS] Service is activated, the contractor will reroute customer traffic to contractor’s traffic scrubbing center where attack traffic will be blocked to OTech’s [Office of Technology Services] facility," the bid says.
The state will award a three-year contract with two additional option years. Final bids are due Jan. 5, 2016. Key action dates are subject to change.
Internet infrastructure firm Verisign reported this year that DDoS attacks against government targets are becoming more common and growing in size, accounting for 15 percent of all attacks recorded by the company at the end of 2014. According to state records, the biggest DDoS attack the state has encountered is 1.5 Gbps.
