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Active Threat Intelligence at a Global Scale
As DDoS attacks continue to increase in frequency and complexity, DDoS attack threat intelligence becomes vital for automated, adaptive DDoS attack protection. Derived from NETSCOUT’s ATLAS network’s real-time monitoring of 50% of internet traffic, an unmatched source of visibility into global DDoS attack activity, combined with human insight from NETSCOUT’s ASERT Team, the ATLAS Intelligence Feed automatically arms all NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS attack protection products with the latest DDoS attack tactics, known sources of DDoS attacks and Indicators of Compromise so organizations can automatically protect themselves from DDoS attacks and other cyber threats and adapt protections as those attacks change vectors.
Benefits
Automated DDoS Attack Protection
Based on NETSCOUT's unique, Internet-wide visibility into the details of DDoS attacks, we are able to provide real-time in-line threat intelligence to our products about where attack traffic is originating from and what the attacks look like, to enable accurate, surgical, automated, and adaptable blocking of up to 90% of DDoS attack traffic.
Blocking Inbound and Outbound Cyber Threats
Cyber Threats are a primary driver for our smart perimeter defense systems for the enterprise. NETSCOUT solutions not only block threats trying to get into the network but also detect and block communication from malware already resident inside the network trying to get out.
Internet Traffic Intelligence
Generates operationally valuable information to identify Over The Top (OTT) traffic to understand the content of traditionally layer 4 flow data. This information can also identify traffic that may not require blocking during security protection activity like web search crawlers or conferencing applications.
Automated Threat Intelligence Improves Adaptive DDoS Protection
As cyber threats continue to increase in frequency and sophistication, mature security teams will rely upon not only the latest cybersecurity technology, but also highly curated threat intelligence that arms these products enabling them to conduct more agile incident response and remediation – all to ultimately avoid the downtime or data breach that puts their organization in the news.
ATLAS Intelligence Feed (AIF)
The ATLAS Intelligence Feed (AIF) continuously arms the NETSCOUT AED product with highly curated, actionable threat intelligence.
Features
(All Products) - Block known, active sources of DDoS attack traffic (e.g. specific IP addresses, botnet hosts) based on real-time global ATLAS intelligence.
- Adds IP Filter Lists in TMS Mitigations and Templates
- Augments inbound DDoS blocking in AED
By identifying current active attackers from our unique worldwide ATLAS DDoS attack data, and identifying current active hosts that are part of DDoS botnets, AIF enables our products to detect and block inbound DDoS attacks quickly, automatically, and accurately, without the risk of false positives that can come from non-human curated automation operating in software alone.
(All Products) - Blocks inbound scanning, brute force attempts, and other bulk inbound cyber threats at your network perimeter. Our botnet intelligence feed uses our Honeypot network to understand when known botnet hosts are trying to infect other hosts on the network. This becomes actionable intelligence because we correlate the scan results with actual attack data from our worldwide collection to identify the which botnet hosts are launching attacks in real time.
- Augments inbound Cyber Threat blocking
AIF identifies known active sources of Internet vulnerability scanning and brute force exploit attempts, as well as other bulk commodity threats. This enables our products to detect and block commodity threats before they enter the network, and help reduce the load on other security devices that may be struggling to keep up during active attacks.
Threat Detection (Sentinel and AED) and Blocking (AED only) - Malware IoCs enable NETSCOUT solutions to detect malware communication with a special focus on known botnet Command and Control infrastructure. NETSCOUT solutions detect infected hosts and threats resident inside the network, including APTs, and in the case of AED disrupts kill chain blocks and their outbound communication to prevent downloading additional malware payloads or communicating with command and control servers that are part of the kill chain.
- In Sightline this enables threat Indicators in MO configuration
- In AED malware coverage is expanded to Nation-State APTs, Malware Downloaders & Expanded Malware Distribution and Exploitation
Using the breadth of our global attack intelligence, we will detect, analyze and identify malware that may beinvolved in probing activities currently operating on your network and identify other advanced persistent threats.
- Provides traffic analysis reports for OTT traffic
Identify and report on Over The Top (OTT) traffic from Content Providers using scalable flow data.
Resources
Related Pages
Arbor Threat Mitigation System for DDoS Attacks
Arbor Sightline DDoS Attack Detection Solution
