Adaptive DDoS Protection Solution

AI-and ML-powered DDoS Protection

Adaptive DDoS Protection in NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense (AED) is an AI- and 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.

The NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report’s latest findings indicate that direct path attacks are increasing. These attacks are so difficult because they are smaller and shorter in duration but still manifest as full network outages or nuisance application downtime and can change vectors during an attack to evade fundamental DDoS defenses, especially upstream ones. These disruptions in network availability can negatively affect brand reputation, customer trust, and revenue. Defending your network efficiently requires AI- and ML-driven technology that can adapt to the ever-changing attackers’ challenges and global threat intelligence that provides operational and accurate knowledge about the adversary.

Within AED, the Adaptive DDoS Protection process employs this intelligence and AI and ML technology to continually check new attack traffic against existing countermeasures to ensure new attack verification. Once identified, protection recommendations, including activation of existing countermeasures, are created and presented against existing countermeasures to provide full visibility of changes. Then, the process repeats to ensure your protection keeps pace with the evolution of attack traffic.

The backbone of Adaptive DDoS Protection is NETSCOUT’s unmatched, globally unique ATLAS Threat Intelligence. NETSCOUT ATLAS monitors over 550 Tbps of internet traffic in real-time, spanning more than 500 ISPs and 2,000 enterprise sites that represent 40-50% of global internet activity at any given time. NETSCOUT has implemented AI/ML within the ATLAS infrastructure to make sense of all the collected data, weed out false positives, and correlate disparate datasets to create deterministically accurate, actionable intelligence in real-time. All this actionable threat intelligence is provided to our products via the ATLAS Intelligence Feed (AIF) to protect our customers' networks and critical business applications and services.