NETSCOUT SYSTEMS announced that it has extended its leadership position in DDoS protection by expanding its Arbor Cloud attack mitigation scrubbing centers to 15 worldwide with a dedicated capacity of 15 terabits per second (Tbps).
In addition, NETSCOUT added a new presence in Dubai, which allows regional enterprises and ISPs to mitigate DDoS attacks more quickly and efficiently by reducing latency.
Arbor Cloud delivers an automated, on-demand managed service with comprehensive protection against modern, high-volume DDoS attacks that target bandwidth, low and slow attacks targeting applications and infrastructure, and concurrent, multi-vector attacks. Working in concert with Arbor Edge Defense (AED), an on-premises “always-on” solution installed in-line in the customer network, Arbor Cloud provides a high-availability “backstop” to AED’s real-time DDoS mitigation capability. Through “cloud signaling” with Arbor Cloud, AED can automatically get the additional capacity needed to mitigate any size attack on the customer’s infrastructure. Additionally, Arbor Cloud offers an always-on solution for customers who have not deployed AED.
AED is backed by the visibility and threat detection offered through Arbor Sightline, which works with the Arbor Threat Mitigation System (TMS) to surgically remove DDoS attack traffic. Arbor Cloud is also supported by advanced DDoS intelligence through NETSCOUT’s ATLAS® Intelligence Feed (AIF), which fuels AED’s high-performing, stateless packet-processing engine. AIF is managed by ASERT.
ASERT is a world-class security research and analysis team comprised of experts from diverse backgrounds, including military intelligence, law enforcement, software engineering, cyber threat intelligence, malware reverse engineering, and data science. ASERT tracks DDoS attacks and campaigns in nearly every country and monitors these attacks, sourced from botnets, booter/stresser services, and various attack tools, in near real-time. ASERT routinely collaborates with peers and many of the world’s Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) to collectively combat DDoS attacks and threats.
Arbor Cloud offers a flow monitoring service for rapid DDoS attack detection, which now encrypts flow records transmitted to Arbor Cloud. In addition, Arbor Cloud updated its web portal with single sign-on authentication.
Michael Szabados, chief operating officer, NETSCOUT
With 15 Tbps of dedicated capacity, Arbor Cloud offers a service that’s unique and different from many content delivery providers that claim higher overall capacity but ultimately offer limited bandwidth for DDoS data scrubbing. Furthermore, Arbor Cloud is backed by leading industry experts. When your SecOps team faces an attack, you want ASERT at the ready to help you quickly mitigate the situation so it doesn’t negatively impact your business.
