NETSCOUT Defends Customers From Cyberattacks With Automated, Real-Time Traffic Analysis, Global Threat Intelligence, and ML-Based Mitigation
September 19 2023 - 8:05AM
Business Wire
Adaptive DDoS Protection for Arbor TMS
Dramatically Improves Dynamic Distributed Attack Detection
Including Carpet Bombing
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of
performance management, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection
solutions, today launched Adaptive DDoS Protection for its Arbor®
Threat Mitigation System (TMS) to dramatically improve detection of
distributed attacks that dynamically change vectors and target
numerous destination IP addresses at once.
NETSCOUT ASERT, the company’s expert security research and DDoS
attack mitigation team, has documented a significant increase in
dynamic Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks using multiple
vectors and techniques to launch botnet-based, direct-path, state
exhaustion, and application-layer attacks designed to evade
conventional static network and cloud-only-based DDoS defenses.
Carpet-bombing attacks have risen by more than 110%. They are
particularly challenging for SOC teams to mitigate using
conventional means as these attacks target large swaths of IP
addresses versus a single host and generate hundreds or thousands
of alerts per attack.
“Direct path attacks are overtaking reflection/amplification as
the most popular DDoS attack vector, and they are increasingly
botnet-driven, multi-vector, and dynamically adjusted in
real-time,” said Patrick Donegan, founder and principal analyst,
HardenStance. “NETSCOUT knows more about DDoS attacks than any
other company. ASERT analyzes highly curated data from its ATLAS
Intelligence Feed (AIF) and uses ML-based algorithms to recommend
changes to attack countermeasures to stop DDoS attacks. Automating
this functionality to bring intelligence into its Adaptive DDoS
Protection functionality makes Arbor TMS even more compelling in
mitigating DDoS attacks.”
Adaptive DDoS Protection analyzes traffic in real-time and
automatically implements threat intelligence-driven mitigations and
countermeasures to block dynamic DDoS attacks as they evolve.
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.
Defending Against Carpet Bombing
Carpet bombing attacks are one of the most devastating
distributed attacks bad actors can initiate since they target large
ranges of IP addresses simultaneously, generating thousands of
attack alerts that are impossible for SOC teams to manage. Through
Adaptive DDoS Protection, NETSCOUT has introduced a new way to
understand DDoS traffic at the network level across all subnets to
detect and report on carpet bombing attacks in one,
easy-to-understand alert. NETSCOUT’s ML-based Precise Protection
Prefix technology automatically determines the specific IP ranges
targeted by the attack. It then automatically redirects those to
Arbor TMS for mitigation, even as the attack moves around the
network to different targets. This Adaptive DDoS Protection
capability dramatically improves the detection and mitigation of
carpet-bombing attacks.
“Defending a network requires as much knowledge about your
adversary as possible,” said Scott Iekel-Johnson, AVP, DDoS and
Threat Intelligence at NETSCOUT. “We have embedded our global
threat intelligence and decades of attack mitigation experience
into this product. It’s like having an ASERT analyst at your side
24/7. Our Adaptive DDoS Protection finds attacks that other
solutions miss through dynamic detection and intelligent
redirection to enable Arbor TMS to mitigate DDoS attacks better
than any other solution on the market.”
To learn more about Adaptive DDoS Protection for Arbor TMS,
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.
©2023 NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. All rights reserved. NETSCOUT, the
NETSCOUT logo, Guardians of the Connected World, Visibility Without
Borders, Adaptive Service Intelligence, Arbor, ATLAS, Cyber Threat
Horizon, InfiniStream, nGenius, nGeniusONE, Omnis, and TrueCall are
registered trademarks or trademarks of NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC.,
and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other
countries. Third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of
their respective owners.
View source
version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230919603567/en/
Editorial Contacts:
Maribel Lopez Manager, Marketing & Corporate Communications
+1 781 362 4330 maribel.lopez@netscout.com
Chris Shattuck Finn Partners for NETSCOUT +1 404 502 6755
NETSCOUT-US@FinnPartners.com
Netscout Systems (NASDAQ:NTCT)
Historical Stock Chart
From Apr 2024 to May 2024
Netscout Systems (NASDAQ:NTCT)
Historical Stock Chart
From May 2023 to May 2024