Innovative NETSCOUT Solution Protects Customers From Cyberattacks
November 07 2023 - 8:05AM
Business Wire
Adaptive DDoS Protection for AED Defends
Against DNS Water Torture
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of
performance management, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection
solutions, today launched Adaptive DDoS Protection for Arbor Edge
Defense (AED) to protect ISPs and enterprises from DNS water
torture attacks. According to the NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence
Report, Domain Name System (DNS) water torture attacks increased
353% in the first six months of 2023, overwhelming Authoritative
DNS server resources and bringing down critical DNS services.
“DNS water torture DDoS attacks have been around since 1997, yet
many organizations still struggle to efficiently identify and
mitigate them,” said John Grady, principal at Enterprise Strategy
Group. “These attacks send invalid requests to an Authoritative DNS
server to slow it down and prevent legitimate requests from getting
a response. Security teams cannot broadly block this traffic
without potentially impacting valid requests due to the
pervasiveness of DNS and can easily misdiagnose an attack as a
performance issue. NETSCOUT’s Adaptive DDoS Protection auto-learns
and adapts to changes in DNS server configuration, enabling AED to
identify and mitigate these attacks.”
DNS water torture is one of many attack techniques adversaries
can adopt to bring down DNS infrastructure. NETSCOUT’s Adaptive
DDoS Protection for AED protects against many DDoS attack
techniques at scale by:
- Auto-learning legitimate hostnames for each domain by
continually analyzing DNS query and response packets
- Adapting to DNS server configuration changes to prevent
blocking legitimate domains and changes to attack techniques
- Intelligently blocking DNS water torture IP sources on a
query-by-query basis
Adaptive DDoS Protection gives SOC teams a scalable, always-on,
stateless packet processing solution that uses unmatched visibility
into more than 50% of all internet traffic, real-time global DDoS
attack threat intelligence, and decades of DDoS mitigation
experience to automatically detect, adapt to, and mitigate dynamic
DDoS attacks.
“Adaptive DDoS Protection for AED provides customers with a
unique hybrid multi-layer DDoS defense architecture,” said Scott
Iekel-Johnson, AVP, DDoS and Threat Intelligence at NETSCOUT. “It
can learn and filter millions of legitimate hostnames and thousands
of domains backed by our ATLAS® Intelligence Feed (AIF) to thwart
modern-day attacks and advanced threats.”
To learn more about Adaptive DDoS Protection for AED, visit our
website.
About NETSCOUT
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT) protects the connected
world from cyberattacks and performance and availability
disruptions through the company’s unique visibility platform and
solutions powered by its pioneering deep packet inspection at scale
technology. NETSCOUT serves the world’s largest enterprises,
service providers, and public sector organizations. Learn more at
www.netscout.com or follow @NETSCOUT on LinkedIn, Twitter, or
Facebook.
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