Microsoft will team up with Sony and Nintendo to develop protection against DDoS attacks

Even in the world of large corporations and multibillion-dollar business, sometimes you have to unite with your main competitors in order to achieve your goal together. In this case, we are talking about the largest platform-holders in the market of gaming consoles: Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. Under normal conditions, these three companies try to contact at the minimum, but in the light of recent events, when hacker groups are increasingly attacking their servers, the leadership of the companies has nothing left but to unite their efforts to fight cyber-terrorists.

For the Christmas holidays at the end of 2014, the owners of Xbox and PlayStation gaming consoles received a rather unpleasant gift: hackers with the most powerful DDoS attack put on the blades all the game servers of Microsoft and Sony. For several days engineers and security specialists were restoring online services, but the festive mood of many gamers was spoiled, because they could not meet on the Internet with their friends during the Christmas holidays.

During his recent interview with Game Informer, the head of the Xbox game division Phil Spencer told the following:

"I do not think it's great when the online service of our competitors from Sony is down. Personally, I'm not at all happy about it. On the contrary, it only frightens many gamers, instills in their hearts fears and mistrust. So we just need to take the opportunity to share our experience in this area and improve the quality and protection of our online services. At the moment, we all (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo) are actively communicating on this topic, and I think this is just wonderful. "

Well, it is commendable that in the world of business competition, when a fierce struggle is fought for the video game market, there is a place for a peaceful exchange of experience and friendly support. Let's hope that the three big companies will still be able to develop a decent system to protect their servers from attacks of sullen hackers. I am glad that the beginning of a very large and important work has been laid, and then it is a matter of time.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/games/microsoft-obedinitsya-s-sony-i-nintendo-chtoby-razrabotat-zashhitu-ot-ddos-atak.html.