Arbor Cloud and Pravail Availability Protection System ‘revolutionise’ enterprise DDoS defence

The impact of a DDoS attack is not the same for every organisation. If you operate a global network, or one in which Web and application availability is a necessity for your employees, customers and supply chain partners, Arbor CloudSM is your solution. With DDoS protection from Arbor Cloud and the Pravail® Availability Protection System, enterprises can deploy best-practices defence in a single solution, with tightly integrated mitigation from the enterprise premise to the cloud. Arbor Cloud’s hybrid defence protects enterprises against a wide spectrum of DDoS attacks, including volumetric, application-layer, state-exhaustion (e.g. targeting firewall/IPS), blended and multi-vector DDoS attacks. The ease of use of the on-premise Pravail® solution enables existing enterprise IT staff to maintain control of the mitigation, and gives them the ability to quickly alert the cloud when attacks reach a certain size that cannot be blocked locally.

“Arbor Networks has more experience than anyone on the planet in fighting DDoS attacks for complex and demanding networks. We’ve taken everything we’ve learned since 2000 and poured it into Arbor Cloud, making it the premier DDoS protection service for those organisations that absolutely must ensure the availability of their networks, services and applications. Our technology is proven, reliable and highly scalable, infused with cutting edge research and backed by a world-class service and support organisation that is absolutely committed to do whatever it takes to keep customer networks up and running,” said Arbor Networks President Matthew Moynahan.

Arbor Cloud & Pravail On-Premise Enhancements
Accelerated Cloud SignalingSM that Delivers the Fastest Time to Mitigation
A leading cause of network downtime is how quickly a cloud-based provider of DDoS protection can respond and initiate mitigation when the attacks are too big for on-premise solutions to handle on their own. Arbor has reduced time to mitigation to as little as five seconds. Cloud Signaling automates the connection between the on-premise Pravail solution and Arbor mitigation equipment in the Cloud. A cloud signal can be pre-set and trigger automatically when links reach a certain saturation point, or they can be done manually. This tight integration is the best way to ensure the availability of critical network resources. Arbor Cloud deploys cutting edge software releases to take advantage of the latest innovations in cloud signaling as they are developed.

Built-in SSL Inspection to Block Encrypted Attacks
As the Internet evolves to increasingly rely on SSL encryption, DDoS attacks have also evolved to encrypt the malicious traffic and evade defences. The Pravail Availability Protection System now includes an optional on-box SSL acceleration card to deliver an integrated, one-appliance solution to inspect encrypted traffic for DDoS threats. DDoS attacks are blocked in real time as normal traffic passes uninterrupted – all without forcing changes to existing network and application infrastructure.

Integrated Console to Manage Appliances and Cloud Signaling
Arbor now delivers a consolidated user interface to manage the full set up, configuration, forensics and Cloud Signaling across large deployments of the Pravail Availability Protection System.

Enhanced DDoS & Malware Threat Detection
Arbor’s Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT) is one of the largest dedicated research organisations in the security industry, combining 20+ security analysts with a diverse set of expertise, including Fortune 25 Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) to former law enforcement, threat mitigation vendors and well-known malware researchers. ASERT is the only security research group with access to the ATLAS threat monitoring infrastructure to identify threats and global trends as they evolve on the Internet. Viewing the attack landscape with this security lens, and utilising custom tools for malware indexing and botnet simulation, ASERT develops threat intelligence for customers, complete with the security context required to detect and stop specific threats, and continuously enhance their security posture over time. The Pravail Availability Protection System now includes the following threat protections delivered as part of the ATLAS Intelligence Feed:
· Inbound Reputation-based DDoS Protection: The Pravail Availability Protection System now includes expanded DDoS defences backed by the global threat intelligence of ATLAS and reputation-based research from ASERT. In-depth analysis expands the breadth of detection and blocking of various types of availability attacks based on the source of the traffic participating in known DDoS attacks.
· Inbound and Outbound Advanced Threat Protection: Organisations need a way to stop threat communications in order to protect internal systems from being compromised. The Pravail Availability Protection System now applies global threat intelligence of ATLAS and reputation-based research from ASERT to block both inbound and outbound threats via domain and IP reputation.