SaaS Provider of Payment Processing Solutions Protects Business from DDoS Attacks with Arbor Edge Defense

To more effectively protect their business, as well as their customers’ business, this organization turned to Arbor Edge Defense (AED) from NETSCOUT®. This stateless packet processing engine functions as a network perimeter enforcement point, detecting and blocking both inbound cyber threats (e.g. DDoS attacks) and outbound malicious communications. Unlike their WAF which only protected web applications, AED protects all services inbound and outbound, providing best of breed DDoS protection and contextual threat intelligence. Essentially, AED delivers both the first and last line of perimeter defense for an organization. Deploying AED was a complete game changer. Suddenly the IT team was able to both see and mitigate ongoing volumetric and application layer DDoS attacks that they had previously been blind to. They were able to detect both botnet and attack traffic as well as stop new DDoS attacks in their tracks. The ease of configuration and visibility into different types of threats made for quick time to value for this organization. AED provided the IT team a unique view into the traffic on the network, due to the curated library of threat data it has access to through the ATLAS Threat Intelligence Feed. Armed with potentially millions of reputation-based Indicators of Compromise (IoC), AED could stop inbound IoCs in bulk, taking pressure off of stateful security devices such as the previously deployed WAF. AED was also able to block outbound communication from compromised internal devices to known bad sites on the internet – essentially acting as a last line of defense. Each time an outbound IoC was blocked, AED could provide more context related to the IoC, thus helping the security teams better determine risk and provide additional information for proactive use in other security tools.