New NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense Solution is the First and Last
Line of Defense with Automated Detection and Blocking of Inbound and
Outbound Threats
WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
NETSCOUT
SYSTEMS, INC., (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of service
assurance, security, and business analytics, today introduced NETSCOUT
Arbor Edge Defense (AED), a new security solution that redefines the
perimeter cyber security stack and serves as the first and last line of
defense against multiple types of inbound and outbound threats.
“Data center and network architectures are becoming increasingly
distributed, straining traditional perimeter enforcement points. At the
same time, targeted campaigns are now backed by internet-scale
intrusions like NotPetya. The unique combination of stateless filtering,
rigorous curation of threat intelligence, and ingestion of third party
feeds, allows NETSCOUT to block outbound threats with the same level of
confidence as the inbound DDoS attacks they’ve been blocking for years,”
said Jeff Wilson, IHS Markit research director for cybersecurity.
Bringing Stateless Security to the Edge
NETSCOUT AED is an always-on, in-line solution which can be deployed as
a physical appliance or virtual network function. It sits outside the
firewall, between the enterprise or data center and the internet. A
unique stateless packet processing engine provides efficient blocking of
malicious traffic matching Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) without
tracking any session state. As a result, NETSCOUT AED can make other
perimeter defenses more effective by protecting them from DDoS attacks,
and offloading the overhead associated with applying millions of IoCs to
traffic streams.
NETSCOUT AED leverages the Company’s proven market-leading DDoS
technology that is already trusted by thousands of enterprises
worldwide. As a result, it provides advanced packet-based protections
against complex application-specific DDoS attacks and state-exhaustion
techniques; as well as defenses against internet scale threats,
neutralizing the malware families that make up the global botnet threat.
Armed with millions of reputation-based IoCs, NETSCOUT’s stateless
packet processing engine can also detect and block outbound
communication from internal compromised hosts that have been missed by
other devices in the security stack; helping to stop further
proliferation of malware and other tactics used within crimeware and
advanced threat campaigns.
Operationalizing Threat Intelligence
NETSCOUT has the unprecedented ability to enable security and network
teams to connect and correlate unique intelligence on emerging internet
threats and trends, with visibility into what is happening across their
entire internal organization from a threat perspective. NETSCOUT’s
Active Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS®), collects, prioritizes, and
disseminates data on emerging threats based on our unique visibility
into over one-third of all internet traffic. The
ATLAS Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT) is
continuously and automatically delivering high fidelity threat
intelligence via the ATLAS
Intelligence Feed, enabling customers to not only block threats in
real-time but enhance their defenses over time.
NETSCOUT believes that effective threat intelligence not only identifies
attacks but also provides context to understand and catalogue attack
infrastructure, methods, related indicators to enable faster security
decisions can be taken with greater confidence. NETSCOUT AED supports
standards such as STIX/TAXII for ingestion of third-party threat
intelligence and provides a robust REST API to integrate threat
detection and blocking telemetry, and contextual threat intelligence
into existing SOC workflows and management tools.
“NETSCOUT AED provides a scalable, high-efficiency means of detecting
and blocking traffic matching threat intelligence. Using both our own
ATLAS Intelligence Feed (AIF) and third-party IoCs ingested via
STIX/TAXII, we can detect and block many of today’s threats while
feeding information into other elements of the security stack via a
robust set of APIs,” said Darren Anstee, NETSCOUT’s chief technology
officer for security.
To learn more about NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense, visit our blog.
About NETSCOUT
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT) assures digital business services
against disruptions in availability, performance, and security. Our
market and technology leadership stems from combining our patented smart
data technology with smart analytics. We provide real-time, pervasive
visibility, and insights customers need to accelerate and secure their
digital transformation. Our approach transforms the way organizations
plan, deliver, integrate, test, and deploy services and applications.
Our nGenius service assurance solutions provide real-time, contextual
analysis of service, network, and application performance. Arbor
security solutions protect against DDoS attacks that threaten
availability and advanced threats that infiltrate networks to steal
critical business assets. To learn more about improving service,
network, and application performance in physical or virtual data
centers, or in the cloud, and how NETSCOUT’s performance and security
solutions, powered by service intelligence can help you move forward
with confidence, visit www.netscout.com or
follow @NETSCOUT and @ArborNetworks on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
Safe Harbor
Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe
harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
and other federal securities laws. Investors are cautioned that
statements in this press release, which are not strictly historical
statements, including without limitation, the statements related to the
benefits and capabilities of NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense solution,
constitute forward-looking statements which involve risks and
uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from the
forward-looking statements due to known and unknown risk, uncertainties,
assumptions and other factors. Such factors include ongoing development
of NETSCOUT AED to adequately address current and future customer
requirements in a timely manner. For a more detailed description of the
risk factors associated with the Company, please refer to the Company’s
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018 and
subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, which are on file with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. NETSCOUT assumes no obligation to
update any forward-looking information contained in this press release
or with respect to the announcements described herein.
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NETSCOUT logo, Guardians of the Connected World, Adaptive Service
Intelligence, Arbor Networks, the Arbor Networks logo, ATLAS,
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Source: NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC.