Arbor Networks Launches Security Platform for Service Providers

Arbor Networks® today introduced the new flagship Peakflow® SP, extending the industry's top security platform for service providers.

The new Peakflow SP integrates network-wide traffic and routing analysis with the award-winning Peakflow DoS, distributed denial of service (DDoS) and worm prevention technology - all in a single device. Peakflow SP is now designed to work for both security operations and network operations, as organizations work more closely together to fight today's much larger and more sophisticated cyber attacks.

"We are pleased to bring the new Peakflow SP to market," said Tom Schuster, president of Arbor Networks. "Peakflow SP is a direct result of working with our customers to determine what they need to effectively address their growing network security and operational challenges."

"With the increasing number and complexity of denial of service attacks and their impact on performance and availability, it's becoming more and more important for security and network teams to be able to work together with a unified set of tools," said Paul Froutan, vice president of product development, Rackspace Managed Hosting.
In the past two years, network threats have increased in frequency, impact, and intensity. Attacks have become so prevalent and costly that several major service providers have launched security services based on Peakflow to combat these incidents.

While attacks formerly were isolated to one network, today they are more likely to become worldwide infrastructure attacks that cross network and country boundaries. As a result, the diagnostic tools used by network operators must provide both network-wide and Internet-wide analysis.

Deployed in over 90 major service provider and MSO networks across the globe, Peakflow SP streamlines infrastructure security and network operations, while improving operational efficiencies, reducing costs and offering new revenue streams for service providers.

Using Peakflow's unique anomaly detection engine, Peakflow SP proactively detects and traces network-wide anomalies, including distributed DDoS attacks and worms (e.g. Slammer, Blaster). These attacks are often aimed at the network infrastructure, an area of network security that firewalls and IDSs cannot address. Using Peakflow SP network operators can quickly resolve these threats before their network is affected, service suffers, or customers complain.

Peakflow SP transforms business planning and operations through its complete view of network-wide traffic and routing data. Network operators can detect, analyze, and mitigate network outages and inefficiencies, whether they stem from an attack, misconfiguration, misuse, or the longer-term impact of changes in network utilization.

Arbor Networks ensures the security and operational integrity of the world's most critical networks. Arbor's solutions are based on the proven Peakflow platform, intelligent technology for network-wide data collection, analysis, anomaly detection, and threat mitigation.