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Contributed article by Jeremy Nichols, Arbor Networks director of channels for EMEA

Arbor's Pravail Availability Protection System (APS) was a finalist in the Infrastructure category

Interview features Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager of security research

Article features Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research

Article features Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing and strategy

Contributed article by Darren Anstee, Arbor Networks Solutions Architect for EMEA

Contributed article by Darren Anstee, Arbor Networks solutions architect for EMEA

Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research

Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research

Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research

Overview of Arbor's distribution deal for Pravail APS in Latin America with Westcon

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Article quotes Darren Anstee, Arbor Networks solutions architect for EMEA

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Contributed article by Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing and strategy

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Article features Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing and strategy

Article features talk at Virus Bulletin 2011 conference in Barcelona by Arbor Networks Jose Nazario and Jeff Edwards

Contributed article by Darren Anstee, Arbor Networks solution architect for EMEA

Interview with Rob Malan, Arbor Networks co-founder and chief technology officer

Article quotes Nick Race, Arbor Networks country manager for Australia and New Zealand

Article features Bill Lipsin, Arbor Networks vice president for partners and alliances

Interview with Bill Lipsin, Arbor Networks vice president for partners and alliances

Video interview with Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager of security research

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Feature on Tata Communications DDoS managed services quotes Arbor Networks president Colin Doherty

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Article features Arbor Networks research

Article quotes Rob Malan, Arbor Networks co-founder and chief technology officer

Article quotes Jeff Edwards, Arbor Networks research analyst

Interview with Eric Michonnet, Arbor Networks country manager for France

Article features Eric Jackson, product manager for Arbor's Pravail Availability Protection System

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Feature on research and blog post by Curt Wilson of Arbor's Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT)

Interview with Bill Cerveny, a sr. software quality assurance engineer at Arbor Networks

Feature article on Arbor's reseller relationship with ProxyNet in Africa

Article quotes Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing

Contributed article by Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing

Q&A on data center security with Arbor Networks Marco Gioanola

Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager of security research

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Contributed blog post by Rakesh Shah, Arbor Networks director of product marketing

Article features Arbor's Pravail Availability Protection System

Contributed article by Rakesh Shah, Arbor's director of product marketing

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Article quotes Arbor Networks CTO Rob Malan

Article quotes Arbor Networks CTO Rob Malan

Article features Arbor Networks research and quotes CTO Rob Malan

Article features Arbor Networks research and CTO Rob Malan

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News brief on Arbor's Pravail Availability Protection System 

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Overview of Arbor Pravail APS for Internet Data Centers

Feature on the Arbor Pravail Availability Protection System (APS) for Internet data centers

Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research

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Article quotes Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research

Article features Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist

Article cites Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist

Article features Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist

Article features Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist

Article features Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist

Article features Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist

Q&A with Paul Scanlon, Arbor Networks solutions architect for the Americas

Article quotes Carlos Morales, Arbor's vice president of global sales engineering

Article features research by Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research

Article features research by Jose Nazario, Arbor Networks senior manager for security research

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Article quotes Jose Nazario, senior manager of security research with Arbor Networks

Feature on blog post and research by Jeff Edwards of Arbor's security research team, ASERT

Article features research by Jeff Edwards of Arbor's security research team, ASERT

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Article cites Arbor Networks research

Article cites Arbor Networks research

Article cites Arbor Networks research

Article cites Arbor Networks research, quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor's chief scientist

Article features Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist

Article cites Arbor Networks research

Article features Arbor Networks research

Article features Arbor Networks research

Article features Arbor Networks research

Article features Arbor Networks research

Article features Arbor Networks research

Article cites Arbor Networks research

Interview with Carlos Morales, Arbor's vice president of global sales engineering and consulting

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Article quotes Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks solutionsarchitect for Asia

Article features Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist

Article features Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist

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Article quotes Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks solutions architect for Asia

Article quotes Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks solutions architect for Asia

Article quotes Roland Dobbins, ArborNetworks solutions architect for Asia

Article quotes Paul Scanlon, Arbor Networks solutions architect for the Americas

Article quotes Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks solutions architect for Asia

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Techworld.com - The rising tide of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) is being made much worse by a tendency to mis-deploy firewalls and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) in front of servers, a report by Arbor Networks has found.

The company surveyed 111 global service providers across fixed and mobile sectors for its 2010 Infrastructure Security Report and uncovered a huge jump in DDoS attack size during the year. Maximum attack sizes reached 100Gbit/s for the first time, double that for 2009, and ten times the peak size seen as recently as 2005, increasingly in the form application attacks rather than simple packet flooding.

Attack frequency also appears to be increasing, with 25 percent of respondents seeing 10 or more DDoS attacks per month, and 69 percent experiencing at least one.

But according to Arbor, service providers and corporate could significantly reduce their DDoS vulnerability by designing their security infrastructure to better locate policy-based security devices such as firewalls.

During 2010, nearly half of all respondents had experienced a failure of their firewall or IPS due to DDoS, something that could have been avoided in many cases using better router security configuration.

"They [firewalls] should not be placed in front of servers. Folks do it because they have been programmed to do it," says Arbor's solutions architect, Roland Dobbins. In many cases, these devices became immediate bottlenecks in the face of DDoS, achieving the attackers' aims with ease. Firewalls and IPS were fine for LANs where they filtered outgoing traffic, but turned into obvious points of failure when used as a barrier to protect servers receiving large volumes of inbound packets, he says.

One thing that is clear form Arbor's report is that DDoS size will go on increasing, fed ironically by increased investment in defences against DDoS generally. Rather like the growth in spam after the advent of efficient filtering, better defences force attackers to up their game, throwing more and more traffic at targets in the hope of having some effect.

An interesting blind spot suggested by Arbor could be mobile networks, which Dobbins describes as being almost "accidental ISPs."

Currently, mobile providers know almost nothing about the state of the handsets using their services, despite half reporting security problems with customers. The same proportion reported outages due to security incidents, which suggests that such networks could become the next frontier for criminals to attack Internet targets.

"They don't have visibility into their IP network. They are almost a decade behind," says Dobbins of providers in this space.

Longer term, a missing piece of the DDoS defence is policing, witha significant minority of respondents expressing a lack of confidence in law enforcement. Many of the sceptical see no point in reporting attacks to the law and have little hope of it doing much good even when they do.

Article quotes Paul Scanlon, Arbor Networks solutions architect for the Americas

Article quotes Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks solutions architect for Asia

Article quotes Carlos Morales, Arbor Networks vice president of global salesengineering and consulting

Article quotes Paul Scanlon, Arbor Networks solutions architect for the Americas

Article features research and blog post by Jeff Edwards, Arbor Networks security researcher

Arbor Networks Chief Scientist Craig Labovitz interviewed,  Arbor graphic used, segment starts at 16:44

Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist

Features Arbor Networks research and graphic, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist

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Article features Arbor Networks research and graphic, quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist

Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist

Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist

Article features Arbor Networks research and graphic

Article features Arbor Networks graphic and quotes Craig Labovitz, chief scientist

Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist

Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist

Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist

Cites Arbor Networks research.

Article quotes Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks chief scientist

Article cites Arbor Networks research

Article cites Arbor Networks research

Features Kris Lamb, vice president of engineering at Arbor Networks.