NETSCOUT’s Arbor DDoS Protection Recognized as a Top Solution

Omdia, a global analyst and advisory leader that helps connect the dots across the technology ecosystem, recently named NETSCOUT’s Arbor distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection solutions as leading in the DDoS prevention market.

Omdia’s DDoS Prevention Technology Market Tracker 3Q24–4Q24 is an analysis of trends, market size, and market share for DDoS prevention technology (hardware, software, and services). Vendor coverage includes NETSCOUT, Cloudflare, Akamai, Tencent, Radware, Microsoft Azure, AWS, A10 Networks, Corero, and more.

Overall DDoS Prevention Market Share

The top five DDoS prevention technology vendors account for approximately 52 percent of the market, according to Omdia. NETSCOUT came in a close second after Akamai in 2H24, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12 percent from 2H23 to 2H24.

Omdia sees three types of vendors in the top five:

1. Technology providers such as NETSCOUT offer DDoS protection via the deployment of hardware/software and/or the use of external services for traffic scrubbing.
2. Cloud providers such as AWS offer DDoS protection to applications hosted on their clouds, either for free or as a premium service.
3. Content delivery network (CDN) providers such as Akamai offer DDoS protection for applications that are deployed leveraging their CDNs, plus additional services such as web application firewalls.

Key Market Trends Highlighted in the Report

DDoS attack techniques are continually evolving, leading to the convergence of various solutions. DDoS attacks persist in their attempts to overwhelm specific resources by employing requests that are indistinguishable from legitimate ones. Although commonly categorized as network layer (L3) or transport layer (L4) attacks, the sophistication of modern DDoS has resulted in a proliferation of application layer (L7) attacks. Furthermore, the ease with which malicious actors offer DDoS as a service in the market has significantly enhanced the capability of targeted attacks.

Network and cloud service providers are crucial stakeholders in the prevention of DDoS attacks. These providers are significant buyers of DDoS prevention technology, because they integrate DDoS protection into their portfolios of network connectivity and network security services. For cloud service providers, this entails offering DDoS protection for hosted environments, while network service providers also provide protection for fundamental network connectivity.

DDoS attacks have been observed in use by a diverse range of threat actors, including groups with varying degrees of state affiliations, criminal organizations attempting to engage in extortion, and activist groups on opposing sides of various contemporary events. In addition to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, conflicts such as the Hamas-Israel conflict and less prominent geopolitical disputes have been associated with numerous DDoS attacks targeting both government and private entities.

Conclusion

As the DDoS threat landscape continues to evolve, attacks are continuously increasing in size, frequency, and complexity. With today’s adversaries leveraging artificial intelligence (AI)-powered botnets and sophisticated DDoS-for-hire services, the need for advanced DDoS protection is greater than ever before. NETSCOUT’s Adaptive DDoS Protection is an AI/machine learning (ML)-powered technology specifically designed to adapt to any changes in an attacker’s strategy or methodology to ensure the continued availability of your most critical business services and applications.

Check out NETSCOUT’s Arbor DDoS protection solutions today.