VeriSign Inc. has said it will invest about $ 100 million to upgrade the infrastructure after suffering a wave of hackers earlier this week into the original Internet server system.

VeriSign Inc. currently manages ".com" and ".net" domain systems with the responsibility to ensure that everyone can access these domain names. However, from the beginning of this week, VeriSign Inc.'s computer system. has suffered many attacks by criminals, although no unfortunate consequences have occurred.

VeriSign invested 100 million USD to upgrade the network infrastructure images 1 Stratton Sclavos, VeriSign CEO, will announce details of the plan to upgrade the infrastructure at a security conference held in San Francisco yesterday (February 8). Stratton Sclavos said it was the biggest investment in its infrastructure and technology development. With this investment, VeriSign hopes that by 2010, it will improve the ability to provide services 10 times higher than today.

According to Stratton Sclavos, VeriSign is running two of the 13 root servers of the global Internet system. Therefore, the company was forced to strengthen the security of the system against the wave of hackers. " We found that the attacks were very complex. Their goal is not only thousands of users, but also millions of different users, " Stratton Sclavos said.

VeriSign's new investment will improve the organization's ability to handle the domain name system (DNS), with an average of 400 billion to 4,000 billion queries per day. These queries are counted every time an Internet user clicks on sites with ".com" or ".net" domains; or check e-mail and use applications that use these domains.

Currently, VeriSign is processing about 24 billion queries per day; however, the organization is preparing to upgrade the processing capacity much higher because more and more people use the Internet and perform online transaction and entertainment activities.

The new investment will also upgrade the VeriSign system bandwidth from 20Gbps to 200Gbps. VeriSign promises to reduce bottlenecks, and the speed of " crawling " on the global network.