NETSCOUT Case Studies Small Financial Institution Employs Hybrid DDoS Protection Posture to Protect Their Network

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Small Financial Institution Employs Hybrid DDoS Protection Posture to Protect Their Network

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
Applicable Industries	Finance & Insurance
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Cybersecurity Services
Challenge	The financial institution was battling Application-Layer and TCP-Flood-DDoS attacks that their service provider’s always-on cloud solution could not identify and manage effectively. They embarked on a traffic analysis project to understand the malicious traffic traversing their network. They initially employed an always-on cloud solution provided through a service provider. The solution was sufficient for identifying and mitigating volumetric DDoS attacks, but it struggled with other DDoS attack vectors. The cloud solution was typically designed and configured to trigger mitigation on traffic volume spikes, which meant it had trouble identifying low and slow Layer 7 application attacks and attacks targeting the TCP Tables within stateful devices. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a Regional Financial Institution that provides short-term financial solutions. They employ sophisticated technologies to manage a diverse range of online, mobile, and branch-based consumer financial and loan services as well as applications. The organization embarked on a traffic analysis project with an eye toward understanding malicious traffic that could be traversing their network. Their initial decision was to employ one of our competitors, which specializes in an always-on cloud solution that is provided through a service provider. Read More
Solution	The NETSCOUT team recommended a hybrid approach with Arbor Edge Defense (AED) on-premise within each data center to protect the edge of the network and stateful devices from low-volume yet effective attacks while collaborating with Arbor Cloud to mitigate the volumetric attacks. This would cover them for complex, multivector DDoS attacks. The solution was designed to identify and mitigate DDoS attacks at every level in the application stack. The hybrid solution provided the ability to identify and mitigate DDoS attacks at every level in the application stack. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud

Applicable Industries

Finance & Insurance

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Cybersecurity Services

Challenge

The financial institution was battling Application-Layer and TCP-Flood-DDoS attacks that their service provider’s always-on cloud solution could not identify and manage effectively. They embarked on a traffic analysis project to understand the malicious traffic traversing their network. They initially employed an always-on cloud solution provided through a service provider. The solution was sufficient for identifying and mitigating volumetric DDoS attacks, but it struggled with other DDoS attack vectors. The cloud solution was typically designed and configured to trigger mitigation on traffic volume spikes, which meant it had trouble identifying low and slow Layer 7 application attacks and attacks targeting the TCP Tables within stateful devices.

About Customer

The customer is a Regional Financial Institution that provides short-term financial solutions. They employ sophisticated technologies to manage a diverse range of online, mobile, and branch-based consumer financial and loan services as well as applications. The organization embarked on a traffic analysis project with an eye toward understanding malicious traffic that could be traversing their network. Their initial decision was to employ one of our competitors, which specializes in an always-on cloud solution that is provided through a service provider.

Solution

The NETSCOUT team recommended a hybrid approach with Arbor Edge Defense (AED) on-premise within each data center to protect the edge of the network and stateful devices from low-volume yet effective attacks while collaborating with Arbor Cloud to mitigate the volumetric attacks. This would cover them for complex, multivector DDoS attacks. The solution was designed to identify and mitigate DDoS attacks at every level in the application stack. The hybrid solution provided the ability to identify and mitigate DDoS attacks at every level in the application stack.

Impact #1	The client experienced a very noticeable drop in the familiar firewall attacks that they had been experiencing throughout the year while using their always-on, cloud-only solution.
Impact #2	The financial institution gained the ability to identify and mitigate DDoS attacks at every level in the application stack.

Impact #1

The client experienced a very noticeable drop in the familiar firewall attacks that they had been experiencing throughout the year while using their always-on, cloud-only solution.

Impact #2

The financial institution gained the ability to identify and mitigate DDoS attacks at every level in the application stack.

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Small Financial Institution Employs Hybrid DDoS Protection Posture to Protect Their Network

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