S E C U R I T Y
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Due to NETSCOUT's flexibility in licensing, global presence and ability to react swiftly, the customer was able to meet their
crisis goals quickly and efficiently.
The Results
The increased DDoS management and
mitigation capacity provides the organization
and their employees confidence that they
will be protected from DDoS attacks that
can disrupt their business activity and
even damage the organization's reputation
while temporarily working from home. The
organization was satisfied with the flexibility
of the AED license configuration and the
ability of NETSCOUT to execute on a global
procurement effort quickly and to the
organization's crisis timeline.
The Details
With the onset of the Coronavirus outbreak,
the consulting firm wanted all global
employees to work from home and use
VPN to access their data centers, which
led to upgrades in the internet circuits to
handle the anticipated increase in traffic.
This increase in traffic will also expand the
threat landscape within the organization's
network. The AED devices protect locally
until the Internet bandwidth is consumed
and then automatically signals Arbor Cloud
for cloud-based DDoS attack mitigation. As a
result, AED mitigation capacity needed to be
upgraded along with the internet circuits to
correspond with the increase in VPN traffic.
Since the company had AED 2600's, this was
simply a software license upgrade to go from
5G to 10G and was simplified by the fact that
NETSCOUT
®
has global procurement in UK,
Canada, LATAM, and Australia as well as US
to support them.
The Situation
A multi-billion dollar global professional
services firm focusing on risk and insurance
services headquartered in the United States
currently uses Arbor Edge Defense (AED)
in data center locations globally to provide
DDoS protection. The initial push for the AED
devices was to provide protection for the VPN
gateways facing the Internet. This was a direct
result of the recognition that if their VPN
gateway IP addresses were attacked, it would
disrupt the work-from-home employees
affecting productivity. In addition, Arbor
Cloud provides Carrier Agnostic global DDoS
protection along with automated signaling
from the AED devices in each location to
augment DDoS attack management and
mitigation with Arbor Cloud™.
Billion-Dollar Consulting Firm
Increases DDoS Attack Management
to Ensure Amplified Employee VPN
Traffic Coverage Due to Coronavirus
TO SCALE AND MEET CRISIS
NETWORK TRAFFIC AND
SECURITY NEEDS
CUSTOMERS REQUIRE
FLEXIBLE LICENSING AND
RAPID REACTION TIME
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