NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC., a
leading provider of service assurance, security, and business analytics, today announced that Jaguar
Network, a global provider of hosting, network, corporate telephony
and cloud services, has selected the Arbor vAPS for their first
network function virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN/NFV)-based
DDoS protection solution.
"We have been successfully using Arbor technologies for many years and look
forward to providing high-end protection with competitive pricing inside our
multi-cloud offering called JN Cloud Atlas platform. This is directly in line
with Jaguar Network's strategy to make technologies accessible in order to
ensure effective use by the entire entrepreneur community," said Jaguar
Networks' CEO Kevin Polizzi.
DDoS Attacks and the
Data Center
There were 7.5
million DDoS attacks in 2017, according to data from Arbor's Active Threat Level Analysis System
(ATLAS) which covers approximately one-third of global internet traffic.
According to our 13th annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report,
among data center operators, 45 percent saw their internet bandwidth saturated
due to DDoS attacks. This, at a time when the consequences are rising.
Reputation/brand damage and operational expense were still the two main
business impacts of DDoS attacks, the former cited by 57 percent, an increase
from 48 percent last year. There was also a big jump in respondents reporting
revenue loss as a business impact, up to 32 percent from just 17 percent
previously.
"The Arbor vAPS is
designed from the ground up with the enterprise in mind, and has a simple
easy-to-use user interface. Once configured, the vAPS can automatically
mitigate most DDoS attacks, including volumetric, application-layer attacks
those that target firewalls and other stateful devices. vAPS can also
automatically block in-bound/out-bound traffic to/from known bad actor
infrastructure on the internet, using Arbor's ATLAS Intelligence Feed (AIF).
Finally, vAPS provides a wealth of additional forensic reporting capabilities
that managed services customers require," said Frederic Fleurat, NETSCOUT Arbor
regional manager.
Virtualized
DDoS Protection
NETSCOUT has
fully virtualized its Arbor DDoS protection platforms to provide customers like
Jaguar Network the flexibility they need to fit any network architecture and
protection model. SDN/NFV enables Jaguar Network to deliver managed services
more quickly and more cost-effectively. Customers can subscribe to security
services on their portal and have the services provisioned and activated within
minutes without any need for physical infrastructure changes within their
network. The result is an easy, ‘on-demand' way for customers to access the
DDoS protection they need to mitigate their business risk - delivered more
quickly and cost-effectively than was previously possible.
Arbor licensing is
based on "capacity pools" that allow Jaguar Network to dynamically enable
protection capacity (in the form of vAPS instances) wherever and whenever they
want. For example, they could license a 10G pool and offer a 1Gbps managed
service to ten different customers, 100x 100Mbps or any mix of supported
throughputs. And, licenses can be moved from customer to customer, scaled up or
down and even re-used as customers join the service, as their capacity needs
change or as they leave the service.