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Western European Organization Realizes DDoS Attack Complexity Dictates Hybrid Protection

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security
Use Cases	Cybersecurity
Services	Cybersecurity Services
Challenge	The Western European organization, which consults on network infrastructure with insurance, government, and financial institutions, was experiencing accelerated growth and increased regulations around banking customers. This led to the realization that they needed to upgrade their DDoS protection immediately. Despite having an always-on cloud solution for DDoS protection, the organization was still experiencing some DDoS activity that seemed to bypass the cloud solution. The organization was initially leaning towards an always-on cloud solution, but the NETSCOUT team presented them with a report from the Omnis Threat Horizon Kiosk which showed several attacks on their datacenters that regularly bypass always-on cloud solutions. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a Western European organization that consults on network infrastructure with insurance, government, and financial institutions in the region. They also offer hosting services through two local service providers for some of their client’s networks. Initially, they were a small company but are currently on an accelerated growth path. They had two Data Centers housing their customer networks but only one had DDoS protection and it was in the form of an always-on cloud implementation. Despite this, they still had some identified DDoS activity that seemed to get by the cloud solution. Read More
Solution	The NETSCOUT team presented the executive team with a hybrid solution. The on-premise Arbor Edge Defense (AED) would take care of the attacks that they had already experienced which routinely get by always-on cloud solutions while the Arbor Cloud solution would take care of the attacks that overwhelm the internet circuit prior to getting to the network. This solution technically met all their goals. They purchased two AEDs to cover their datacenters and will eventually purchase access to Arbor Cloud based on its tight integration with the AEDs. They are already looking to Cyber Investigator to augment their security posture. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Network Security

Use Cases

Cybersecurity

Services

Cybersecurity Services

Challenge

The Western European organization, which consults on network infrastructure with insurance, government, and financial institutions, was experiencing accelerated growth and increased regulations around banking customers. This led to the realization that they needed to upgrade their DDoS protection immediately. Despite having an always-on cloud solution for DDoS protection, the organization was still experiencing some DDoS activity that seemed to bypass the cloud solution. The organization was initially leaning towards an always-on cloud solution, but the NETSCOUT team presented them with a report from the Omnis Threat Horizon Kiosk which showed several attacks on their datacenters that regularly bypass always-on cloud solutions.

About Customer

The customer is a Western European organization that consults on network infrastructure with insurance, government, and financial institutions in the region. They also offer hosting services through two local service providers for some of their client’s networks. Initially, they were a small company but are currently on an accelerated growth path. They had two Data Centers housing their customer networks but only one had DDoS protection and it was in the form of an always-on cloud implementation. Despite this, they still had some identified DDoS activity that seemed to get by the cloud solution.

Solution

The NETSCOUT team presented the executive team with a hybrid solution. The on-premise Arbor Edge Defense (AED) would take care of the attacks that they had already experienced which routinely get by always-on cloud solutions while the Arbor Cloud solution would take care of the attacks that overwhelm the internet circuit prior to getting to the network. This solution technically met all their goals. They purchased two AEDs to cover their datacenters and will eventually purchase access to Arbor Cloud based on its tight integration with the AEDs. They are already looking to Cyber Investigator to augment their security posture.

Impact #1	The customer has observed that the installed AED’s are knocking down the nuisance attacks that were routinely causing outages with their previous DDoS solution.
Impact #2	The understanding of actual attack types and complexity that the team experiences showed the value in the hybrid approach to their protection strategy.

Impact #1

The customer has observed that the installed AED’s are knocking down the nuisance attacks that were routinely causing outages with their previous DDoS solution.

Impact #2

The understanding of actual attack types and complexity that the team experiences showed the value in the hybrid approach to their protection strategy.

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Western European Organization Realizes DDoS Attack Complexity Dictates Hybrid Protection

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