Arbor Networks, a provider of security and network management solutions for
data centers and carrier networks, announced the launch of the Arbor Pravail
Availability Protection System (APS) appliances.

“For more than a decade, Arbor Networks has developed innovative,
market-leading DDoS detection and mitigation solutions that are deployed in the
vast majority of the world’s largest and most valuable service provider networks.
Arbor has leveraged this experience to create the Arbor Pravail APS, bringing
carrier-class DDoS detection and mitigation capabilities to the data
center,” said Colin Doherty, president of Arbor Networks.

Arbor is addressing the number one threat to the availability of data center
resources and that is the increasing prevalence and effectiveness of
application-layer denial of service attacks that target infrastructure and
potentially, existing security devices themselves.

“In recent months, high profile attacks and outages have gotten the
attention of C-level executives,” said Rob Ayoub, global program director,
Network Security at Frost & Sullivan.

According to Arbor’s 2010 Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, half of all
who have deployed these devices within their data centers experienced stateful
firewall and/or IPS failure as a direct result of DDoS attacks during the
survey period.

Arbor’s Pravail APS Cloud Signaling capability helps ensure the availability of
data center infrastructures and speed time-to-mitigation for DDoS attacks.

Arbor believes that the only way for data center and cloud operators to have
optimal protection against DDoS attacks is through a combination of on-premise
and in-cloud protection.

Working with its Internet service provider and managed security services
provider customers, Arbor has developed a protocol to facilitate both customer
edge mitigation of application-layer attacks and upstream mitigation of
volumetric attacks in an automated and real-time manner. Cloud Signaling is an
efficient and integrated system bridging the customer premise to the service
provider cloud.

Application-layer DDoS attacks have become the significant threat to
availability of data center and cloud-based services. The Arbor Pravail APS provides
visibility into critical IP services and applications running in the data
center, such as HTTP, DNS, VoIP/SIP and SMTP traffic.

The Arbor Pravail APS protects IDC infrastructure against numerous types of
attack, including TCP State Exhaustion, HTTP/Web Attacks, DNS
Floods/Authentication Attacks, TCP SYN Floods, Spoofed / Non-Spoofed Attacks,
UDP Floods and dozens more.

By Telecomlead.com Team
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