Network-wide visibility to optimize security and performance

Government organizations must staunchly defend their critical network infrastructures against an alarming increase in both internal and external threats that fly under the radar of existing firewall and IT security systems. Ensuring such bolt-tight security is a huge challenge — especially given today's ever-present budget constraints and more open computing environments.

The Arbor Peakflow platform provides protection and network visibility via two complementary products: Arbor Peakflow SP and Arbor Peakflow X.

Peakflow Features:

• Network-wide security for government agencies
• Easy-to-read, in-depth reports to aide with FISMA compliance
• Delivering IPv6 functions today with comprehensive coverage by the end of 2009
• Section 508 compliant

Arbor Peakflow SP is deployed in the backbones of every major service provider and multiple system operator (MSO) network around the globe. The industry's widely deployed choice for ensuring network integrity and availability, Peakflow SP is a network-wide infrastructure security, measurement and traffic-monitoring platform that scales to meet the demand of the world's largest networks.

Arbor Peakflow X provides federal, state and local agencies with unmatched network-wide visibility and real-time threat detection to protect vital information resources. By combining network behavior analysis and anomaly detection, Peakflow X enables organizations to heighten situational awareness and defend against worms, data theft, DDoS attacks, botnets and other malicious threats.

Peakflow X also detects internal misuse by identifying deviations from normal network activity in real time. Its identity tracking capability even displays network traffic by user name and host IP address. In addition, Peakflow X provides a single solution for both network and security professionals through its enterprise-wide view of network performance — reducing the cost, complexity and time of problem resolution.

Leverage Arbor's global real-time insight into emerging attacks

Arbor delivers the only global, 24x7, behavioral-based threat update service called Active Threat Feed (ATF). ATF is made possible by the prestigious Arbor Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) that utilizes intelligence from Peakflow's deployment in more than 70 percent of the world's service provider networks. Using this insight and data from other sources, ASERT issues early warnings called "fingerprints" to thwart emerging attacks before signatures are created.

Arbor also offers the Active Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS), the first globally scoped threat analysis service delivering contextualized insight into threat activity from both a global and local perspective. The ATLAS portal provides intelligence on host/port scanning activity, zero-day exploits and worm propagation, security events, vulnerability disclosures and dynamic botnet and phishing infrastructures.