Arbor Networks' Peakflow SP 5.0 Integrates Fingerprint Sharing for Automated Threat Detection and Mitigation

CHELMSFORD, MA, May 19 (MARKET WIRE) --
Arbor Networks, a leading provider of secure service control solutions
for global business networks, today announced the availability of version
5.0 of Arbor Peakflow SP, the industry's leading network-wide
infrastructure security and traffic-monitoring platform. The new Peakflow
SP 5500 device nearly doubles the performance and scalability of the
previous version. Peakflow SP now includes ATLAS-enabled fingerprint
creation, alerting and mitigation; deeper visibility into the performance
and security of business critical applications; and enhanced reporting
capabilities that allow service providers to analyze traffic to and from
peers, by markets and by geography.

More than 300 customers, including the majority of the world's service
providers and many large enterprises, rely on Arbor's Peakflow SP platform
for cost-effective, pervasive and intelligent visibility into network and
application level traffic, as well as the ability to quickly recognize and
mitigate security threats. Peakflow SP remains a strategic investment for
service providers, allowing them to utilize the same solution for
infrastructure visibility and security to deliver new, differentiated,
revenue-generating managed services such as MPLS VPN visibility and DDoS
managed security services.

"As enterprises struggle with the size and complexity of today's network
security threats such as distributed denial of service attacks, they are
increasingly turning to their service providers for help. The providers
see this as a new revenue opportunity and are aggressively marketing clean
pipes services to their enterprise customers," said Robert Ayoub, industry
manager with the Frost & Sullivan North America Information and
Communication Technologies Practice. "Arbor is uniquely positioned to take
advantage of this trend because they enable providers to deliver these
security services by leveraging existing investments in Arbor technology."

Key Enhancements to Peakflow SP 5.0

"Version 5.0 of Peakflow SP includes significant security enhancements
that automate fingerprint delivery and attack mitigation, delivering
enhanced visibility and protection of critical Network and Hosting
services," said Dennis Brouwer, vice president, Global Network Solutions
at Savvis. "Not only are these important technical capabilities, but they
save time and staffing resources. In addition, we expect significant cost
savings and network optimization from the improved peering analysis and
reporting. The Peakflow platform continues to evolve and deliver real
value for Savvis' global network."

Enhanced Threat Detection and Mitigation via ATLAS Fingerprints

Working with its service provider customers, Arbor has created the world's
largest distributed darknet sensor network. This network, together with
anonymized traffic data from 100+ customer networks, forms the core of the
ATLAS Internet monitoring system. ATLAS data enables Arbor's security
researchers to develop a globally-scoped view of malicious traffic
traversing the backbone networks that form the Internet's core. With this
unique vantage point, Arbor is uniquely positioned to deliver intelligence
about malware, exploits, phishing and botnets. In Peakflow SP 5.0, this
information is aggregated, analyzed and fed back to customers via
Fingerprints, or network behavioral patterns of attacks. The combination
of ATLAS data and Fingerprints provides much finer detection of threats
such as botnet command and control (C&C) sites, phishing sites, worms and
more. No other company has either aggregated this much real-time
information about what is happening across the Internet or developed the
means for fully integrated threat detection and mitigation.

Additional threat detection and mitigation capabilities include:

-- Real-Time Mitigation Dashboard - A single console provides a real-time
view into mitigation alerts and statistics; allows drill down for
configuration of counter measures; and provides the ability to capture and
view raw packet decodes for detailed forensics or troubleshooting.
-- Unified Alerting and Workflow - A single interface combines all
threshold, DDoS, BGP and ATLAS fingerprint alerts. The new user interface
also has real-time search, annotation and classification capabilities which
streamline the workflow and reduce time to problem resolution.

"Peakflow SP 5.0 raises the bar for service provider security by
leveraging the global insight of Arbor's ATLAS Internet monitoring system
and its Active Threat Feed (ATF) based fingerprints to automate both
detection and mitigation of today's most sophisticated threats," said
Danny McPherson, Arbor Networks chief security officer. "This release
also enhances service visibility, monitoring and protection, enabling
providers to define triple-play services within Peakflow SP for security,
performance and growth monitoring, and to protect critical infrastructure
like Domain Name System (DNS) servers. Peakflow SP is a robust platform
that delivers incredible return on investment to network operators around
the world via critical infrastructure protection, operational cost
savings and enhanced revenue generation."

Deeper Insight into Network Traffic for Cost Savings and Revenue
Generation

One of the main traditional value propositions of Peakflow SP is its
ability to conduct robust peering/transit analysis. Peakflow SP 5.0
enhances this functionality by delivering new features that allow
providers to gain deeper visibility into the traffic that enters and
leaves their network. This is essential for proper network engineering,
cost optimization and security, and it also enables the potential to
uncover new service opportunities. Key features include:

-- On-Demand Packet Analysis - Providers gain deeper visibility into the
network and traffic for troubleshooting, fault prevention, performance
monitoring and security forensics.
-- Global Geography Reports - Analyze peering traffic by geography,
market, most used services and threat activity.
-- Expanded Transit Peering Reports - Gain a better understanding as to
where their customer traffic is destined beyond initial peers.

Service Visibility, Performance and Protection via Integrated Threat
Management System

With the 5.0 release, the fully integrated Peakflow SP Threat Management
System (TMS) device now provides application/service layer visibility,
threat detection and mitigation, allowing service providers to improve
service visibility, monitor key performance metrics and protect services
from threats via new functionality such as:

-- Expanded Visibility & Reporting - Peakflow SP, along with TMS, now
automatically recognizes 90 applications or allows the operator to define
custom applications/services based upon a combination of IP addresses, TCP
ports, application IDs, packet payload and Fingerprint definitions. There
are also many new HTTP, VoIP and DNS specific reports that provide deeper
visibility into the applications and services running on the network.
-- Performance Monitoring - Peakflow SP TMS not only determines what
applications and services are running on the network, but also how these
services are performing. By monitoring key performance metrics such as
jitter, response time, packet loss and more, Peakflow SP TMS can
automatically recognize and help solve service performance problems.
-- Service Protection - Peakflow SP TMS leverages the expanded visibility
and performance-monitoring capabilities of Peakflow SP 5.0 by conducting
service specific mitigation. For example, after a custom service is
defined, Peakflow SP TMS can detect service anomalies and automatically
protect the availability of the service by rate limiting non-malicious
traffic (e.g., a flash crowd event) or blocking malicious traffic (e.g., a
DoS attack).

Peakflow SP 5.0 will be generally available on June 1.

About Arbor Networks

Arbor Networks is a leading provider of security and network management
solutions for global business networks, including more than 70 percent of
the world's Internet service providers and many of the largest enterprise
networks in use today. Arbor's secure service control solutions give
customers a single, unified view into their networks' performance,
helping them to quickly detect anomalous behavior, mitigate threats and
enforce policy. This translates into actionable business intelligence to
generate new forms of revenue and to maintain a competitive advantage.

Arbor also maintains ATLAS -- a unique collaborative effort with 100+
service providers across the globe sharing real-time security, traffic
and routing information. No other entity today has both aggregated this
much real-time information about what is happening across the Internet
and developed the means for cross-provider collaboration that informs
numerous business decisions.

For technical insight into the latest security threats and Internet
traffic trends, please visit the ASERT blog.

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