NETSCOUT upgrades Arbor Edge Defense​

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Performance management and cybersecurity leader, NETSCOUT launches new upgrades to its industry-leading Arbor Edge Defense (AED) and Arbor Enterprise Manager (AEM) products as part of its Adaptive DDoS Protection Solution to combat AI-enabled DDoS threats and protect critical IT infrastructure.

Recently, NETSCOUT’s DDoS Threat Intelligence Report noted that application-layer and volumetric attacks have increased by over 43% and 30%, respectively, whilst DDoS-for-hire services have also increased in number and sophistication, making attacks easier to launch.  The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) also recently released a cybersecurity advisory that validated the need for better controls to prevent and detect malicious activity, reinforcing enterprises' need for protective solutions to minimize business risk.
 
“According to recent IDC research, IT environment complexity is often the top challenge to an organisation’s mitigation efforts, especially as attackers continually modulate their attack vectors using AI to challenge defences,” comments Chris Rodriguez, research director, security & trust, IDC.  “Organizations need to invest in proactive, adaptive measures to protect their environments like those provided by NETSCOUT’s Adaptive DDoS Protection solution.  Reactive or static mitigation that lacks sophisticated intelligence creates unnecessary risk and opens the door for costly damage to business productivity and reputation.”
 
“Adaptive DDoS Protection provides customers with a sophisticated feature set designed to stop the ever-evolving threats to critical IT infrastructure, which has increased by 55% over the last four years,” adds Scott Iekel-Johnson, AVP, DDoS and threat intelligence, NETSCOUT.  “We’re continually adding new capabilities to our solution to help organizations protect assets anywhere, including on-premises, in a private data centre, or a public cloud through a single solution.”

NETSCOUT’s latest enhancements to AED and AEM include holistic management and visibility into blocking non-DDoS threats, a new appliance that supports up to 200 Gbps of DDoS attack mitigation capacity and high-performance decryption, and Virtual AED’s extended support for Microsoft Azure public cloud environments, in addition to AWS Cloud, for unified hybrid-cloud DDoS attack protection.