Blog Leverages Arbor Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT) Expertise

Lexington, Mass., April 5, 2006 - Arbor Networks®, a leader in network security, today unveiled its “Security to the Core” blog at the 2006 CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. Arbor Networks also announced today the formation of the Arbor Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT), Arbor Networks’ newly-formed security research group responsible for evaluating burgeoning Internet-scale threats that endanger the global cyber infrastructure. The blog will serve as a security information resource for Arbor Networks’ customers, the mass media and the public at large as the demand for insight into malicious network attacks and Internet security risks heightens.

The “Security to The Core” blog primarily will be contributed to by Arbor Networks ASERT engineers, including Sunil James, Jeff Nathan, Dr. Jose Nazario, Dug Song, and Mark Zielinksi. This team of security leaders commands expertise in vulnerability and exploit research, intrusion detection/prevention system (IDS/IPS) signature development, network traffic engineering and malicious code analysis.

Leveraging insight from Arbor Networks’ security experts, the blog will deliver valuable and insightful observations for those seeking information on the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, malicious code and exploits that regularly emerge. A portion of this commentary will be gathered from daily ASERT-conducted research that is shared with Arbor Networks customers and partners via the Active Threat Feed (ATF) zero-day threat detection service, notifying them of potential security threats that may adversely impact global business networks.

“A blog provides an uninhibited gaze into a particular organization. Given the significant security expertise that ASERT and others bring to the company, it is a natural extension for us to give them a forum to share their knowledge and insight in an open, public blogging environment,” commented Tina Stewart, vice president of marketing, Arbor Networks. “We are pleased to offer such a valuable resource as malicious security viruses and attacks continue to plague global business networks.”

Blog content also will be provided by Dr. Robert Malan, credited with developing the ground-breaking NetFlow analytics technology powering Arbor Networks’ line of Peakflow® appliances, and Dr. Craig Labovitz and Danny McPherson, who are experts on large-scale Internet cyber attacks and authors of Arbor Networks’ 2006 Global ISP Survey. This extended team will leverage their network security architecture backgrounds to offer perspectives on the latest trends in network anomaly detection and network security.

ASERT team members and bloggers have each made significant research contributions, having published books, articles and web content including:

• Dug Song: “dsniff” tools for network auditing and penetration testing
• Dr. Jose Nazario: Defense and Detection Strategies against Internet Worms (Artech House, 2003)
• Dr. Jose Nazario: The Blaster Worm Then and Now (IEEE Computer Society, 2005)
• Danny McPherson: Internet Routing Architectures (Pearson Education, 2000)
• Danny McPherson: Practical BGP (Pearson Education, 2004)
• Dr. Craig Labovitz: author of Arbor Networks’ patents on routing and anomaly detection

For more information, please visit the Arbor Networks security blog at www.arbornetworks.com/blog.

About Arbor Networks
Arbor Networks ensures the security and operational integrity of the world's most critical networks. Arbor's solutions are based on the proven Peakflow platform, intelligent technology for network-wide data collection, analysis, anomaly detection, and threat mitigation. Arbor Peakflow provides real-time views of network activity enabling organizations to instantly protect against phishing, botnets, DDoS attacks, worms, insider misuse, and traffic and routing instability, as well as segment and harden networks from future threats. Arbor Peakflow successfully prevents costly downtime, network cleanup, and loss of customer confidence. Arbor Networks is headquartered in Lexington, MA, with a research and development office in Ann Arbor, MI and overseas headquarters in London and Beijing. For more information, go to www.arbornetworks.com.

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