In Arbor Networks has announced the Arbor Pravail Availability Protection System (APS) appliances, a new product family focused on securing the Internet data centre (IDC) edge from threats against availability specifically, protection against application-layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Arbor Pravail APS brings carrier-class DDoS detection and mitigation capabilities to the data centre, 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 centre 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. Arbor is addressing the number one threat to the availability of data centre resources and that is the increasing prevalence and effectiveness of application-layer denial of service attacks that target infrastructure, and potentially, existing security devices themselves.
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 centre, these products themselves are commonly the targets of DDoS attacks. According to Arbors 2010 Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, half of all who have deployed these devices within their data centres experienced stateful firewall and/or IPS failure as a direct result of DDoS attacks during the survey period.
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