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Arbor Networks launches Pravail APS for Indian enterprise data centers
 Arbor
Networks, Inc., a provider of security and network management solutions for
next-generation data centers and carrier networks, today announced the Arbor
PravailTM Availability Protection System (APS) appliances, a new product family
focused on securing the Internet data center (IDC) edge from threats against
availability— specifically, protection against application-layer distributed
denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
“We are very pleased to announce the availability of
the Pravial APS for our Indian customers. For more than a decade, Arbor Networks
has developed innovative, market-leading DDoS detection and mitigation solutions
that are deployed in the vast majority of the world’s largest and most
valuable service provider networks. Arbor has leveraged this experience to create
the Arbor Pravail APS, bringing carrier-class DDoS detection and mitigation
capabilities to the data center,” said Colin Doherty, Arbor Networks president.
“In recent months, high profile attacks and outages
have gotten the attention of C-level executives,” said Rob Ayoub, Global
Program Director, Network Security at Frost & Sullivan. “If your data
center is not available, all the compliance or data integrity in the world is
not going to help your customers, business or your brand,” said Ayoub.
Firewall and IPS not effective against sophisticated DDoS
threats
While key elements of an overall security strategy, firewalls
and Intrusion Prevention Systems are not effective solutions against DDoS attacks.
Because these devices maintain state information for every session established
between a client on the Internet and the corresponding server in the data center,
these products themselves are commonly the targets of DDoS attacks. According
to Arbor’s 2010 Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, half of all who
have deployed these devices within their data centers experienced stateful firewall
and/or IPS failure as a direct result of DDoS attacks during the survey period.
ATLAS Intelligence feed
The Arbor ATLAS intelligence feed enables Pravail APS to
provide unprecedented protection against botnet-fueled DDoS attacks. Over the
past five years, Arbor has tracked the rise of botnet-fueled DDoS attacks --
in this year’s Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, botnets were identified
as the primary engine fueling DDoS attacks that threaten the availability of
data center and cloud-based infrastructures. Arbor has unique visibility into
DDoS botnets because of its ATLAS infrastructure, which combines a darknet sensor
network with traffic data from more than 100 service provider customers around
the world.
This dataset enables Arbor’s security researchers to
develop a unique, globally-scoped view of malicious traffic traversing backbone
networks that form the Internet's core. This insight is critical, as botnets
are constantly changing and updating to thwart detection. The new ATLAS Intelligence
Feed delivers DDoS signatures in real time to protected against botnet-fueled
DDoS attack toolsets and their variants. Moreover, this new feed includes geo-location
data and automates the identification of attacks against data center infrastructure
and services from known botnets while ensuring that updates for new threats
are automatically delivered without software upgrades. Arbor's researchers are
constantly analyzing DDoS botnet attacks--more than 4,300 to date.
Cloud Signaling
Arbor’s Pravail APS Cloud Signaling capability helps
to ensure the availability of data center infrastructures and speed time-to-mitigation
for DDoS attacks. Arbor believes that the only way for data center and Cloud
operators to have optimal protection against DDoS attacks is through a combination
of on-premise and in-cloud protection. Working with its Internet service provider
(ISP) and managed security services provider (MSSP) customers, Arbor has developed
a protocol to facilitate both customer edge mitigation of application-layer
attacks and upstream mitigation of volumetric attacks in an automated and real-time
manner. Cloud Signaling is an efficient and integrated system bridging the customer
premise to the service provider Cloud.
Further, application-layer DDoS attacks have quickly become
a significant threat to availability of data center and Cloud-based services.
Application-layer attacks are low bandwidth, difficult to detect and target
both end customers and network operators’ own ancillary supporting services,
such as HTTP Web services, domain name system (DNS), etc. The Arbor Pravail
APS provides visibility into critical IP services and applications running in
the data center.
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